Changing practice and improving care using a low-risk tracheotomy clinical pathway

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 630-634

  Smith, Kristine A ^a   Matthews, T Wayne ^a   Dubé, Mirette ^b   Spence, Gerald ^b   Dort, Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; THORAX PAIN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRACHEAL HEMORRHAGE; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 84905025348     PISSN: 21686181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2014.921     Document Type: Article

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