Going home to die from surgical intensive care units

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 810-815

  Huang, Yu Chen ^a   Huang, Sheng Jean ^a   Ko, Wen Je ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

End of life care; Mortality; Place of death; Surgical intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM MALEATE; MORPHINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TERMINAL CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TAIWAN;

EID: 67349262503     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1452-1     Document Type: Article

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