Continuous quality improvement in intensive care medicine. The GiViTI Margherita project - Report 2005

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 419-432

  Boffelli, S ^a   Rossi, C ^a   Anghileri, A ^a   Giardino, M ^a   Carnevale, L ^b   Messina, M ^c   Neri, M ^d   Langer, M ^e   Bertolini, G ^a   Abastanotti, Marco ^f   Alberti, Arnaldo ^f   Alborghetti, Armando ^f   Angiolini, Patrizia ^f   Anticoli, Borza Stefania ^f   Archi, Davide ^f   Arditi, Enrico ^f   Badii, Flavio ^f   Balata, Andrea ^f   Barattini, Massimo ^f   Barbagli, Remo ^f   Bartoccini, Arcangelo ^f   Bartoli, Teresa ^f   Bassi, Francesco ^f   Beck, Eduardo ^f   Belloni, Umberto Giuseppe ^f   Berardino, Maurizio ^f   Bernasconi, Maria Olga ^f   Bianchin, Andrea ^f   Blasetti, Angelo ^f   Boccalatte Rosa, Daniela ^f   Bonaccorso, Giuseppina ^f   Bonfà, Andrea ^f   Bonfiglio, Monica ^f   Bonizzoli, Manuela ^f   Bottari, Valter ^f   Breschi, Cesare ^f   Bressan, Silvia ^f   Brunori, Emanuela ^f   Burgio, Gaetano ^f   Buzzetti, Virginio ^f   Cabano, Gian Virgilio ^f   Calicchio, Giuseppe ^f   Caracciolo, Massimo ^f   Casagli, Sergio ^f   Casagrande, Lucia ^f   Casciani, Massimo ^f   Castiglione, Giacomo ^f   Cavallo, Renata ^f   Chiarello, Marco ^f   Chieregato, Arturo ^f   Chinelli, Elena ^f   Chini, Giuseppe ^f   Clemente, Stefano ^f   Coaloa, Maddalena ^f   Colombo, Riccardo ^f   Colonna, Salvatore Silvio ^f   Cominotti, Silvano ^f   Corsini, Walter ^f   Constanzo, Eleonora ^f   Crema, Luciano ^f   Crestan, Ezio ^f   Dal Cero, Paulo ^f   Dal Ferro, Marino ^f   Dal Poggetto, Luigi ^f   Dal Pos, Lucia ^f   David, Antonio ^f   De Blasi, Roberto Alberto ^f   De Luca, Alessandra ^f   De Negri, Pasquale ^f   Dei Poli, Marco ^f   Del Sarto, Paolo ^f   Di Masi, Pierfrancesco ^f   Di Pasquale, Dino ^f   Elvio, De Blasio ^f   Fabbri, Emilio ^f   Fabbri, Lea ^f   Fabbri, Pier Giorgio ^f   Fabi, Maria Cristina ^f   Faccio, Luciana ^f   Falconio, Anotnio ^f   Fasiolo, Simonetta ^f   Febbrari, Paolo ^f   Ferrante, Marco ^f   Ferraro, Fausto ^f   Fiore, Gilberto ^f   Fontaneto, Carlotta ^f   Gabini, Rita ^f   Galeotti, Elsa ^f   Gamberini, Emiliano ^f   Garelli, Alberto ^f   Garofalo, Giuseppe ^f   Giacopuzzi, Luigi ^f   Gianni, Massimo ^f   Giannoni, Stefano ^f   Girardis, Massimo ^f   Giudici, Daniela ^f   Giugiaro, Pier Mario ^f   Gorietti, Adonella ^f   Grassi, Paolo ^f   more..

^a MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c Civil Hospital   (Italy)

^d BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Gruppo Italiano per la Valutazione degli Interventi in Terapia Intensiva; Intensive Care Units; Quality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33745280981     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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