Quality indicators in intensive care medicine: Why? Use or burden for the intensivist;Qualitätsindikatoren in der intensivmedizin: Wozu? Nutzen oder last für intensivmediziner

GMS German Medical Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Braun, Jan Peter ^a   Mende, Hendrik ^b   Bause, Hanswerner ^c   Bloos, Frank ^d   Geldner, Götz ^e   Kastrup, Marc ^a   Kuhlen, Ralf ^f   Markewitz, Andreas ^g   Martin, Jörg ^h   Quintel, Michael ⁱ   Steinmeier Bauer, Klaus ^a   Waydhas, Christian ^j   Spies, Claudia ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Regionale Kliniken Holding RKH GmbH   (Germany)

^c ASKLEPIOS KLINIK ALTONA   (Germany)

^d JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e Dept of Anaesthesiology Intensive Care Medicine Pain Therapy and Emergency Medicine   (Germany)

^f Helios Hospital Berlin Buch   (Germany)

^g Dept of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Military Central Homebase Hospital Koblenz   (Germany)

^h Hospital Göppingen   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Intensive care medicine; Outcome; Quality indicators; Quality management; Quality of therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892566106     PISSN: 16123174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3205/000111     Document Type: Article

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