Impact of patient volume on the mortality rate of adult intensive care unit patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1925-1934

  Glance, Laurent G ^a   Li, Yue ^b   Osler, Turner M ^c   Dick, Andrew ^a   Mukamel, Dana B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Hierarchical modeling; Intensive care unit; Quality; Scoring system; Simplified Acute Physiology Score II; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIERARCHICAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGIONALIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33745595340     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000226415.93237.84     Document Type: Article

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