The Eldicus prospective, observational study of triage decision making in European intensive care units: Part I-European Intensive Care Admission Triage Scores

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-131

  Sprung, Charles L ^a   Baras, Mario ^a   Iapichino, Gaetano ^e   Kesecioglu, Jozef ^b   Lippert, Anne ^c   Hargreaves, Chris ^d   Pezzi, Angelo ^e   Pirracchio, Romain ^f   Edbrooke, David L ^g   Pesenti, Antonio ^h   Bakker, Jan ^i,j   Gurman, Gabriel ^k   Cohen, Simon L ^l   Wiis, Joergen ^c   Payen, Didier ^f   Artigas, Antonio ^m  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^g SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^k BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Decision rule; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Triage; Triage procedure; Triage score; Ward

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BICARBONATE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BREATHING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE RATE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE;

EID: 84055160944     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31822e5692     Document Type: Article

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