The impact of hospital and ICU organizational factors on outcome in critically ill patients: Results from the Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care Study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 519-526

  Sakr, Yasser ^a   Moreira, Cora L ^a   Rhodes, Andrew ^b   Ferguson, Niall D ^c   Kleinpell, Ruth ^d   Pickkers, Peter ^e   Kuiper, Michael A ^f,g   Lipman, Jeffrey ^h   Vincent, Jean Louis ⁱ  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

24 hour intensivist; International; Mortality; Nurse:patient ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EASTERN EUROPE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LATIN AMERICAN MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORTH AMERICA; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM IMPACT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WESTERN EUROPE; AGE; AGED; APACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84924252130     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000754     Document Type: Article

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