Use of intensive care-specific interventions in major teaching and other hospitals: A regional comparison

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1204-1207

  Block, Brian M ^c,f   Sirio, Carl A ^g   Cooper, Gregory S ^b,c,d   DiGiuseppe, David L ^c   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,c,e  

^a Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Health care utilization; Health services research; Intensive care units; Outcome assessment; Quality of health care; Severity of illness; Teaching hospitals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034060444     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200004000-00049     Document Type: Article

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