One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation: A cohort study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 167-175

  Unroe, Mark ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^b   Carson, Shannon S ^c   Govert, Joseph A ^a   Martinu, Tereza ^a   Sathy, Shailaja J ^d   Clay, Alison S ^a   Chia, Jessica ^a   Gray, Alice ^a   Tulsky, James A ^e   Cox, Christopher E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Center for Palliative Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955499601     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-3-201008030-00007     Document Type: Article

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