Characteristics of chronically critically ill patients: Comparing two definitions

Clinics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 701-704

  Boniatti, Márcio Manozzo ^a   Friedman, Gilberto ^a   Castilho, Rodrigo Kappel ^a   Vieira, Silvia Regina Rios ^a   Fialkow, Lé A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TIME; TRACHEOSTOMY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 79958760597     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1807-59322011000400027     Document Type: Article

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