Outcomes of patients considered for, but not admitted to, the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 812-817

  Vanhecke, Thomas E ^a   Gandhi, Mihirkumar ^a   McCullough, Peter A ^a   Lazar, Michael H ^a   Ravikrishnan, K P ^a   Kadaj, Phillip ^a   Begle, Robert L ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission; Critical care; Critically ill; Mortality; Rejection

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 44449092719     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0B013E318165FAC7     Document Type: Article

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