Admission to a neurologic/neurosurgical intensive care unit is associated with reduced mortality rate after intracerebral hemorrhage

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 635-640

  Diringer, Michael N ^a   Edwards, Dorothy F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery of health care; Hospital administration; Intensive care unit; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Mortality rate; Neurologic critical care; Outcome; Specialty care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035100660     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200103000-00031     Document Type: Article

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