Hospital mortality of adults admitted to intensive care units in hospitals with and without intermediate care units: A multicentre European cohort study

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Capuzzo, Maurizia ^a   Volta, Carlo Alberto ^a   Tassinati, Tania ^a   Moreno, Rui Paulo ^b   Valentin, Andreas ^c   Guidet, Bertrand ^d,e   Iapichino, Gaetano ^f   Martin, Claude ^g   Perneger, Thomas ^h   Combescure, Christophe ^h   Poncet, Antoine ^h   Rhodes, Andrew ⁱ   Oeyen, Sandra ^j   Matejovic, Martin ^k   Toft, Palle ^l   Wrigge, Hermann ^m   Koulenti, Despoina ⁿ   Breen, Dorothy ^o   Melotti, Rita Maria ^p   Strand, Kristian ^q   Tamowicz, Barbara ^r   Matos, Ricardo ^s   Hagau, Natalia ^t   Navarro, Pedro Navarrete ^u   Dikmen, Yalim ^v   Cecconi, Maurizio ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOSÉ   (Portugal)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^h GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

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

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^k CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^l ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^m UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

ⁿ NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^o Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^r Regional Hospital   (Poland)

^s Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^t Clinical Emergency County Hospital of Cluj   (Romania)

^u HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^v ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMEDIATE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 84962671963     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0551-8     Document Type: Article

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