Challenges in setting up pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in a resource-limited country

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Basnet, Sangita ^a   Adhikari, Neelam ^b   Koirala, Janak ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Patan Academy of Health Science   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Intensive care unit; Nepal

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

BUDGET; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; NEPAL; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 80053481469     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-3657     Document Type: Review

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