Mortality and hospital stay adjusted for severity as indicators of effectiveness and efficiency of attention to Intensive Care Unit patients;Mortalidad y estancia hospitalaria ajustada por gravedad como indicadores de efectividad y eficiencia de la atención de pacientes en Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos

Medicina Intensiva

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-14

  Dominguez L ^a   Enriquez P ^a   Alvarez P ^b   De Frutos, M ^c   Sagredo, V ^d   Dominguez A ^e   Collado, J ^f   Taboada, F ^g   Garcia Labattut A ^h   Bobillo, F ⁱ   Valledor, M ^j   Blanco, Y J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE BURGOS   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL RÍO CARRIÓN   (Spain)

^f Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL SANTA BÁRBARA   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^j HOSPITAL SAN AGUSTÍN   (Spain)

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Author keywords

APACHE; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Mortality prediction and outcome process assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN;

EID: 38349130770     PISSN: 02105691     EISSN: 15786749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0210-5691(08)70897-0     Document Type: Article

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