Do weekends or evenings matter in a pediatric intensive care unit?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Hixson, Eric D ^a,b   Davis, Steve ^a   Morris, Sarah ^a   Harrison, A Marc ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Mortality; Patient outcomes; Pediatric critical care; Physician staffing; Risk; Standardized mortality ratio

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME;

EID: 24944434755     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000165564.01639.CB     Document Type: Article

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