Factors involved in intensive care unit mortality following medical retrieval: Identifying differences between intensive care unit survivors and non-survivors

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 260-267

  Visser, Philip ^a   Harriss, Linton R ^b   Hart, Graeme K ^c   Bohensky, Megan ^d   Sundaresan, Lalitha ^d   Kennedy, Marcus ^a  

^a Ambulance Victoria   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Australian and New Zealand Society of Intensive Care   (Australia)

^d Department of Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeromedical transport; Critical care; Intensive care; Mortality; Retrieval; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVOR; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84879085222     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12075     Document Type: Article

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