The relationship between workload and medical staffing levels in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 326-333

  Brown, Katherine L ^a   Pagel, Christina ^b   Pienaar, Alison ^a   Utley, Martin ^b  

^a Cardiac Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information; Paediatric intensive care; Staffing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; WORKLOAD;

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79953832567     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2085-0     Document Type: Article

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