Uncharted paths hospital networks in critical care

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Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 827-833

  Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,c   Christie, Jason D ^b   Kahnl, Jeremy M ^b   Asch, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SPC 5419 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Health care organization; Medicare; Network analysis; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICARE; NETWORK LEARNING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 62149110753     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-1052     Document Type: Note

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