Critical Care Beds and Resource Utilization: Current Trends and Controversies

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 914-920

  Ward, Nicholas S ^a   Chong, David H ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; health care rationing; ICU; ICU beds; ICU utilization; ICU workforce

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DYING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; MEDICAL STAFF; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MANPOWER; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947945690     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1564876     Document Type: Article

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