Patient mortality is associated with staff resources and workload in the icu: A multicenter observational study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1587-1594

  Neuraz, Antoine ^a,b   Guérin, Claude ^b,c,d   Payet, Cécile ^a,e   Polazzi, Stéphanie ^a,e   Aubrun, Frédéric ^b,c,e   Dailler, Frédéric ^f   Lehot, Jean Jacques ^b,f   Piriou, Vincent ^b,e,g   Neidecker, Jean ^h   Rimmelé, Thomas ^b   Schott, Anne Marie ^a,b,e   Duclos, Antoine ^a,b,e  

^a HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSERM U955   (France)

^e University of Saint Etienne   (France)

^f HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^g CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^h LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Intensive care units; Medical staffing; mortality; Multilevel modeling; Nurse staffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; INSURANCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84942259914     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001015     Document Type: Article

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