Intensive Care after surgery: The need for reassessment (or the "variable geometry" ICU)

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 451-452

  Biancofiore, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONVALESCENCE; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PEER REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 54049127698     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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