Impact of intensive care unit discharge time on patient outcome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2946-2951

  Priestap, Fran A ^a,b   Martin, Claudio M ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Discharge; Intensive care; Length of stay; Mortality; Night

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WARD;

CANADA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751309103     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000247721.97008.6F     Document Type: Article

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