A revised method to assess intensive care unit clinical performance and resource utilization

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1853-1862

  Nathanson, Brian H ^a   Higgins, Thomas L ^b,c   Teres, Daniel ^c,d   Copes, Wayne S ^e   Kramer, Andrew ^e   Stark, Maureen ^e  

^a OptiStatim LLC   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^e CERNER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Intensive care unit performance assessment; Length of stay; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

BENCHMARKING; COHORT STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547662014     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000275272.57237.53     Document Type: Article

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