Multidisciplinary critical care and intensivist staffing: Results of a statewide survey and association with mortality

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 325-332

  Yoo, Erika J ^a   Edwards, Jeffrey D ^b   Dean, Mitzi L ^c   Dudley, R Adams ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Sur ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ICU organization; ICU outcomes; ICU staffing; multidisciplinary critical care

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; CALIFORNIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MANPOWER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALIFORNIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84966587168     PISSN: 08850666     EISSN: 15251489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885066614534605     Document Type: Review

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