What conclusions should be drawn between critical care physician management and patient mortality in the intensive care unit? [1]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 767-

  Higgins, Thomas L ^a   Nathanson, Brian ^b   Teres, Daniel ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OptiStatim LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CRITICAL CARE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56549094296     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-149-10-200811180-00014     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Levy MM, Rapoport J, Lemeshow S, Chalfin DB, Phillips G, Danis M. Association between critical care physician management and patient mortality in the intensive care unit. Ann Intern Med. 2008;148:801-9. [PMID: 18519926]
2. Higgins TL, Teres D, Copes WS, Nathanson BH, Stark M, Kramer AA. Assessing contemporary intensive care unit outcome: an updated Mortality Probability Admission Model (MPM0-III). Crit Care Med. 2007;35:827-35. [PMID: 17255863]
3. Higgins TL, Brennan M, Jodka P, Teres D, Nathanson B. Elderly patients without MPM-III risk factors fare surprisingly well. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:A171.