The impact of a palliative care unit on mortality rate and length of stay for medical intensive care unit patients

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-392

  Digwood, Glen ^a   Lustbader, Dana ^a   Pekmezaris, Renee ^a,b,c,d   Lesser, Martin L ^a,c,d   Walia, Rajni ^a   Frankenthaler, Michael ^a   Hussain, Erfan ^a  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Mortality rate; Palliative care unit

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; NEW YORK CITY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 82055172605     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S147895151100040X     Document Type: Article

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