Meeting standards of high-quality intensive care unit palliative care: Clinical performance and predictors

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1105-1112

  Penrod, Joan D ^a,b   Pronovost, Peter J ^c   Livote, Elayne E ^a   Puntillo, Kathleen A ^d   Walker, Amy S ^b   Wallenstein, Sylvan ^b   Mercado, Alice F ^b   Swoboda, Sandra M ^c   Ilaoa, Debra ^c   Thompson, David A ^e   Nelson, Judith E ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Norman Regional Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; health care; intensive care units; palliative care; quality improvement; quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARE AND COMMUNICATION BUNDLE PROCESS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SOCIAL WORK; SPIRITUAL CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84858784332     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182374a50     Document Type: Article

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