Differences in hospital mortality by ICU staffing models: You cannot always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2433-2434

  Capanni, Francesca ^a   Checkley, William ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING;

EID: 84884863779     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829cb0aa     Document Type: Editorial

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