Using existing data to address important clinical questions in critical care

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 886-896

  Cooke, Colin R ^a,b   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VA CENTER FOR CLINICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health policy; Health services; Intensive care; Outcomes research

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REVIEW; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL CARE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874940204     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827bfc3c     Document Type: Review

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