Elevated body temperature independently contributes to increased length of stay in neurologic intensive care unit patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1489-1495

  Diringer, Michael N ^a   Reaven, Nancy L ^b   Funk, Susan E ^b   Uman, Gwen C ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Strategic Health Resources   (Canada)

^c Vital Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fever; Intensive care; Length of stay; Mortality; Outcome; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APACHE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142667463     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000129484.61912.84     Document Type: Article

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