Who should get pediatric intensive care when not all can? A call for international guidelines on allocation of pediatric intensive care resources

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 82-83

  Kissoon, Niranjan ^a   Burns, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Critical illness; Developing world; Intensive care; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRICS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 84892727627     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000038     Document Type: Editorial

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