Adoption of ICU telemedicine in the United States

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 362-368

  Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b   Cicero, Brandon D ^a   Wallace, David J ^a   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^c,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Care; Intensive Care Units; Rural Hospitals; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895075423     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a6419f     Document Type: Article

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