The effect of implementing high-intensity intensive care unit staffing model on outcome of critically ill oncology patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1967-1971

  Hawari, Feras I ^a   Al Najjar, Taghreed I ^a   Zaru, Luna ^a   Al Fayoumee, Wa'Ed ^a   Salah, Samer H ^a   Mukhaimar, Mohammad Z ^a,b  

^a KING HUSSEIN CANCER CENTER   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Critical care; Intensivists; Mortality; Oncology; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66449088115     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a0077c     Document Type: Article

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