Hospital Contributions to Variability in the Use of ICUs among Elderly Medicare Recipients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 75-84

  Admon, Andrew J ^a   Wunsch, Hannah ^b,c   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,d   Cooke, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

health services research; healthcare delivery; healthcare quality; healthcare utilization; intensive care units

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE; HIP FRACTURES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84981744821     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002025     Document Type: Article

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