ICU telemedicine and critical care mortality a national effectiveness study

Medical Care

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 319-325

  Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b   Le, Tri Q ^a,b   Barnato, Amber E ^a,b   Hravnak, Marilyn ^c   Kuza, Courtney C ^a   Pike, Francis ^a,b   Angus, Derek C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Intensive care units; Mechanical ventilation; Telehealth

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMEDICINE; URBAN AREA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959134525     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000485     Document Type: Article

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