Measuring intensive care unit performance: A way to move forward

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2149-2150

  Zimmerman, Jack E ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case mix; Intensive care unit; Patient outcome assessment; Probability models; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036743123     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200209000-00036     Document Type: Editorial

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