Are all ICUs the same?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 787-793

  Wetzel, Randall C ^a   Sachedeva, Ramesh ^b   Rice, Thomas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

intensive care; pediatrics; quality improvement; severity of illness scores

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

APACHE; CHILD; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PEDIATRICS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958094919     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03595.x     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Arabi Y,. Pro/con debate: should 24/7 in-house intensivist coverage be implemented? Crit Care 2008; 12: 216.
2. Carlson RW, Weiland DE, Srivathsan K,. Does a full-time, 24-hour intensivist improve care and efficiency? Crit Care Clin 1996; 12: 525-551. (Pubitemid 26256462)
3. Lopez AM, Tilford JM, Anand KJ, et al. Variation in pediatric intensive care therapies and outcomes by race, gender, and insurance status. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2006; 7: 2-6.
4. Marcin JP, Song J, Leigh JP,. The impact of pediatric intensive care unit volume on mortality: a hierarchical instrumental variable analysis. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2005; 6: 136-141. (Pubitemid 40724304)
5. Pollack MM, Alexander SR, Clarke N, et al. Improved outcomes from tertiary center pediatric intensive care: a statewide comparison of tertiary and nontertiary care facilities. Crit Care Med 1991; 19: 150-159.
6. Pollack MM, Cuerdon TT, Patel KM, et al. Impact of quality-of-care factors on pediatric intensive care unit mortality. JAMA 1994; 272: 941-946. (Pubitemid 24288548)
7. Pollack MM,. Pediatric intensive care quality factors. J Trauma 2007; 63: S143-S145. (Pubitemid 350306576)
8. Adhikari N, Sibbald W,. The large cost of critical care: realities and challenges. Anesth Analg 2003; 96: 311-314. (Pubitemid 36125738)
9. Bennett NR,. Paediatric intensive care. Br J Anesth 1999; 83: 139-156. (Pubitemid 29317511)
10. Brilli RJ, Spevetz A, Branson RD, et al. Critical care delivery in the intensive care unit: defining clinical roles and the best practice model. Crit Care Med 2001; 29: 2007-2019. (Pubitemid 32980416)
11. Tibby SM, Correa-West J, Durward A, et al. Adverse events in a paediatric intensive care unit: relationship to workload, skill mix and staff supervision. Intensive Care Med 2004; 30: 1160-1166. (Pubitemid 38833371)
12. Luft HS, Hunt SS, Maerki SC,. The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns? Health Serv Res 1987; 22: 157-182. (Pubitemid 17138049)
13. Pearson G, Shann F, Barry P, et al. Should paediatric intensive care be centralised? Lancet 1997; 349: 1213-1217. (Pubitemid 27190045)
14. Iwashyna TJ, Kramer AA, Kahn JM,. Intensive care unit occupancy and patient outcomes. Crit Care Med 2009; 37: 1545-1557.
15. Phibbs SC, Bronstein JM, Buxton E, et al. The effect of patient volume and level of care at the hospital of birth on neonatal mortality. JAMA 1996; 276: 1054-1059. (Pubitemid 26332811)
16. Stiller CA, Draper GJ,. Treatment centre size, entry to trials and survival in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Arch Dis Child 1989; 64: 657-661. (Pubitemid 19127661)
17. Stiller CA,. Centralisation of treatment and survival rates for cancer. Arch Dis Child 1988; 63: 23-30. (Pubitemid 18054193)
18. Earl M, Nateria OM, Zasravsky A, et al. Outcome of pediatric intensive care at six centers in Mexico and Ecuador. Crit Care Med 1997; 25: 1462-1467.
19. Tilford JM, Simpson PM, Green JW, et al. Volume-outcome relationships in pediatric intensive care units. Pediatrics 2000; 106: 289-294. (Pubitemid 30636397)
20. Fackler JC, Wetzel RC,. Critical care for rare diseases. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2002; 3: 89-90.
21. Slonim AD, Pollack MM,. Integrating the Institute of Medicine's six quality aims into pediatric critical care: relevance and applications. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2005; 6: 264-269. (Pubitemid 40724274)
22. Fiser DH, Tilford JM, Roberson PK,. Relationship of illness severity and length of stay to functional outcomes in the pediatric intensive care unit: a multi-institutional study. Crit Care Med 2000; 28: 1173-1179. (Pubitemid 30262097)
23. Marcin JP, Pollack MM,. Review of the acuity scoring systems for the pediatric intensive care unit and their use in quality improvement. J Intensive Care Med 2007; 22: 131-140. (Pubitemid 46905081)
24. Marcin JP, Pollack MM,. Review of the methodologies and applications of scoring systems in neonatal and pediatric intensive care. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2000; 1: 20-27.
25. Knaus WA, Wagner DP, Draper EA, et al. The range of intensive care services today. JAMA 1981; 246: 2711-2716. (Pubitemid 12252375)
26. Le Gall JR,. The use of severity scores in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 2005; 31: 1618-1623.
27. Rosenberg AL,. Recent innovations in intensive care unit risk-prediction models. Curr Opin Crit Care 2002; 8: 321-330.
28. Strand K, Flaatten H,. Severity scoring in the ICU: a review. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2008; 52: 467-478. (Pubitemid 351392864)
29. Marcin JP, Pollack MM, Patel KM, et al. Decision support issues using a physiology based score. Intensive Care Med 1998; 24: 1299-1304. (Pubitemid 28564454)
30. Vincent JL, de Carvalho FB,. Outcomes in the ICU: severity of illness. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2010; 31: 31-38.
31. Pollack MM, Getson PR, Ruttimann UE, et al. Efficiency of intensive care: a comparative analysis of eight pediatric intensive care units. JAMA 1987; 258: 1481-1486. (Pubitemid 17138093)
32. Gemke RJBJ, Bonsel GJ,. Comparative assessment of pediatric intensive care: a national multicenter study. Crit Care Med 1995; 23: 238-245.
33. Gemke RJBJ, Bonsel GJ, van Vught AJ,. Effectiveness and efficiency of a Dutch pediatric intensive care unit: validity and application of the Paediatric Risk of Mortality Score. Crit Care Med 1994; 22: 1477-1484. (Pubitemid 24277995)
34. Ruttimann UE, Patel KM, Pollack MM,. Length of stay and efficiency in pediatric intensive care units. J Pediatr 1998; 133: 79-85. (Pubitemid 28323910)
35. de Keizer NF, Bonsel GJ, Al MJ, et al. The relation between TISS and real paediatric ICU costs: a case study with generalizable methodology. Intensive Care Med 1998; 24: 1062-1069. (Pubitemid 28497825)
36. Gorman M, Sachdeva R, Rice T, et al. Support for PICUs and the PRISM scoring algorithms. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2009; 10: 143-144.
37. Cohen MJ, Grossman AD, Morabito D, et al. Identification of complex metabolic states in critically injured patients using bioinformatic cluster analysis. Crit Care 2010; 14: R10.
38. Prather JC, Lobach DF, Goodwin LK, et al. Medical data mining: knowledge discovery in a clinical data warehouse. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1997; 101-105. (Pubitemid 127434452)
39. Wetzel RC,. The virtual pediatric intensive care unit. Practice in the new millennium. Pediatr Clin North Am 2001; 48: 795-814. (Pubitemid 32521717)