Determinants of post-intensive care mortality in high-level treated critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1751-1756

  Iapichino, Gaetano ^a   Morabito, Alberto ^a   Mistraletti, Giovanni ^a   Ferla, Luca ^a   Radrizzani, Danilo ^b   Reis Miranda, Dinis ^c  

^a SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critically ill; Death in ward; EURICUS I; ICU discharge status; Level of care; Time to die

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING;

AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0242509218     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1915-8     Document Type: Article

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