Rating the quality of intensive care units: Is it a function of the intensive care unit scoring system?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1976-1982

  Glance, Laurent G ^a   Osler, Turner M ^a   Dick, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II; Intensive care units; Mortality Probability Model II0; Quality; Simplified Acute Physiology Score II; Standardized mortality ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0036743113     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200209000-00005     Document Type: Article

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