Pediatric and neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: Does center volume impact mortality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 512-519

  Freeman, Carrie L ^a   Bennett, Tellen D ^a   Casper, T Charles ^a   Larsen, Gitte Y ^a   Hubbard, Ania ^a   Wilkes, Jacob ^b   Bratton, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation; critical care; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; low volume hospitals; pediatrics; risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894455795     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000435674.83682.96     Document Type: Article

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