Intensive care unit readmission: The issue is safety not frequency

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 984-985

  Zimmerman, Jack E ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Hospital mortality; Intensive care unit; Patient discharge; Patient readmission; Premature discharge

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; NOTE; SAFETY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT READMISSION; SAFETY;

EID: 44449100810     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0B013E318165FC15     Document Type: Editorial

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