Variability in outcome and resource use in intensive care units

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1329-1336

  Rothen, Hans U ^a   Stricker, Kay ^a   Einfalt, Johanna ^b   Bauer, Peter ^b   Metnitz, Philip G H ^c   Moreno, Rui P ^d   Takala, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Health services research; ICU mortality; Intensive care unit; Quality assessment; Resource use; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34547115213     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0690-3     Document Type: Article

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