Results of a collaborative quality improvement program on outcomes and costs in a tertiary critical care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1768-1774

  Clemmer, Terry P ^a,b   Spuhler, Vicki J ^b   Oniki, Thomas A ^b   Horn, Susan D ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SEVERITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d Institute for Clinical Outcome Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs control; Costs savings; Critical care; Interdepartmental relations; Organizational culture; Patient care planning; Patient care teams; Quality of health care; Severity of illness classification; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UTAH;

EID: 0032832647     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199909000-00011     Document Type: Article

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