Intensivists at night: Putting resources in the right place

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Levy, Mitchell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FUNDING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVIST; LENGTH OF STAY; NIGHT WORK; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MANPOWER; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING;

EID: 84887534607     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13060     Document Type: Note

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