Critical care dependency tool: Monitoring the changes

Australian Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 56-63

  Donoghue, Judith ^a   Decker, Virginia ^a   Mitten Lewis, Suzanne ^a   Blay, Nicole ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORKLOAD;

CRITICAL CARE; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENTS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0035352364     PISSN: 10367314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1036-7314(01)80005-9     Document Type: Article

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