Regional variation in critical care provision and outcome after high-risk surgery

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1809-1816

  Gillies, Michael A ^a,e   Power, G Sarah ^b   Harrison, David A ^b   Fleming, Andrew ^b   Cook, Brian ^a,c   Walsh, Timothy S ^a   Pearse, Rupert M ^d   Rowan, Kathryn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b and London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group (SICSAG)   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical care; Epidemiology; General surgery; Intensive care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; REGIONALIZATION; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; AGED; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84941942283     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3980-1     Document Type: Article

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