The effect of multidisciplinary care teams on intensive care unit mortality

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-376

  Kim, Michelle M ^a   Barnato, Amber E ^d,e   Angus, Derek C ^d,e   Fleisher, Lee F ^b,c   Kahn, Jeremy M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE TEAM; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PENNSYLVANIA; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77949898740     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.521     Document Type: Article

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