Impact of delayed transfer of critically ill patients from the emergency department to the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1477-1483

  Chalfin, Donald B ^a,b   Trzeciak, Stephen ^c   Likourezos, Antonios ^d   Baumann, Brigitte M ^c   Dellinger, R Phillip ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Analytica International   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^d MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Crowding; Emergency medicine; Emergency service hospital; Health resources utilization; Hospital bed capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34249296721     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000266585.74905.5A     Document Type: Article

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