Guidelines for developing admission and discharge policies for the pediatric intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 843-845

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Author keywords

Admission; Criteria; Discharge; Interdisciplinary; Physiologic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032891411     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199904000-00051     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Hospital Care and Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine: Guidelines and levels of care for pediatric intensive care units. Crit Care Med 1993; 21:931-937 and Pediatrics 1993; 92:111-175
2. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Hospital Care and Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine: Guidelines and levels of care for pediatric intensive care units. Crit Care Med 1993; 21:931-937 and Pediatrics 1993; 92:111-175
3. Ethics Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine: Consensus statement of the SCCM Ethics Committee regarding futile and other possibly inadvisable treatments. Crit Care Med 1997; 25:887-891