Critical care and emergency medicine

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 600-606

  Rivers, Emanuel P ^a   Nguyen, H Bryant ^a,b   Huang, David T ^c   Donnino, Michael W ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STAFF TRAINING;

CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036892414     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200212000-00020     Document Type: Review

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