Weekend and weeknight admissions have the same outcome of weekday admissions to an intensive care unit with onsite intensivist coverage

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 605-611

  Arabi, Yaseen ^a,b   Alshimemeri, Abdullah ^a   Taher, Saadi ^b  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAHAD NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Admissions; Critical care; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Prediction; Severity of illness; Time factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644606043     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000203947.60552.DD     Document Type: Article

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