Adverse effect on a referral intensive care unit's performance of accepting patients transferred from another intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 705-710

  Combes, Alain ^a   Luyt, Charles Edouard ^a   Trouillet, Jean Louis ^a   Chastre, Jean ^a   Gibert, Claude ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Diagnosis related groups; Intensive care units; Outcome assessment; Selection bias; Simplified Acute Physiology Score II

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT TRANSFER; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 17044365868     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000158518.32730.C5     Document Type: Article

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