Variability in interventions with pulmonary artery catheter data

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2059-2062

  Jain, Manu ^a   Canham, Michelle ^a   Upadhyay, Daya ^a   Corbridge, Thomas ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Echocardiography; Medical intensive care unit; Outcomes; Pulmonary artery catheter; Vignette

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; E-MAIL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG ARTERY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DIURETICS; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FUROSEMIDE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NITROPRUSSIDE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0345327536     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1924-7     Document Type: Article

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