Process monitoring in intensive care with the use of cumulative expected minus observed mortality and risk-adjusted p charts

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Cockings, Jerome G L ^a   Cook, David A ^b   Iqbal, Rehana K ^b  

^a ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; APACHE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34447579007     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3996     Document Type: Article

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