Tele-intensive care unit: The horse out of the barn

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 292-293

  Afessa, Bekele ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care cost; Health care delivery; Intensive care; Mortality; Personnel staffing; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMEDICINE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; UNITED STATES;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74049097068     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b9d4dc     Document Type: Editorial

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