Identifying potentially ineffective care in the sickest critically III patients on the third ICU day

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Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1905-1909

  Afessa, Bekele ^a   Keegan, Mark T ^a   Mohammad, Zulfiqar ^a   Finkielman, Javier D ^a   Peters, Steve G ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; Hospital mortality; ICU; Length of stay; Medical futility; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARREST; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEAR DROWNING; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 10444263783     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.6.1905     Document Type: Article

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