Variation in length of intensive care unit stay after cardiac arrest: Where you are is as important as who you are

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 836-841

  Keenan, Sean P ^a,b   Dodek, Peter ^a   Martin, Claudio ^c   Priestap, Fran ^c   Norena, Monica ^a   Wong, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CANADA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33947128318     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000257323.46298.A3     Document Type: Article

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