Mortality and intensive care volume in ventilated patients from 1995 to 2009 in the Australian and New Zealand binational adult patient intensive care database*

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 800-812

  Moran, John L ^a   Solomon, Patricia J ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

critically ill; fractional polynomial; mechanical ventilation; random effects logistic regression; volume outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857515961     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318236f2af     Document Type: Article

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