Mortality after discharge from intensive care: The impact of organ system failure and nursing workload use at discharge

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 999-1004

  Moreno, Rui ^a   Miranda, Dinis ^b   Matos, Ricardo ^a   Fevereiro, Teresa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hospital mortality; ICU discharge status; Nursing workload; Organ dysfunction failure; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score; Simplified Acute Physiology Score II

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; WORKLOAD;

APACHE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT TRANSFER; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0034919867     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340100966     Document Type: Article

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