Survival of critically ill patients hospitalized in and out of intensive care units under paucity of intensive care unit beds

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1654-1661

  Simchen, Elisheva ^a,c   Sprung, Charles L ^b   Galai, Noya ^a,d   Zitser Gurevich, Yana ^a   Bar Lavi, Yaron ^e   Gurman, Gabriel ^f   Klein, Moti ^f   Lev, Amiram ^g   Levi, Leon ^e   Zveibil, Fabio ^h   Mandel, Micha ^a   Mnatzaganian, George ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b School of Public Health   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SPH Hopkins University   (Israel)

^e RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^h WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit admission criteria; Intensive care unit, survival; Prevalence; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; WARD;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3943106163     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000133021.22188.35     Document Type: Article

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