Safe paediatric intensive care. Part 2: Workplace organisation, critical incident monitoring and guidelines

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1292-1297

  Frey, Bernhard ^a   Argent, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Critical incidents; Organisation; Paediatrics; Safety

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; NURSING; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SAFETY; WORKPLACE;

CHILD; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3242656991     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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