Critical Care - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'?

30 Oct 2009 We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government-recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. We found that ... Read more...

Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation.

30 Aug 2009 National guidelines and professional organizations have recommended allowing family presence during resuscitation and bedside invasive procedures. Studies found that only 5% of critical care units have written policies. Periodic requests by family ... Read more...

The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit.

30 Aug 2009 This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses include families in end-of-life care. The major theme, "Supporting the Families' Journey Through the Dying Process," illustrates how critical care ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'? 30 Oct 2009
• Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation. 30 Aug 2009
• The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational views of hardiness in critical care nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Trauma surgery crisis. 30 Aug 2009
• Full life support for acute care surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• The critical care cascade: a systems approach. 30 Jul 2009
• Critical care bed capacity during the flu pandemic: implications for anaesthetic and critical care departments. 21 Jul 2009
• Modelling the impact of an influenza A/H1N1 pandemic on critical care demand from early pathogenicity data: the case for sentinel reporting. 21 Jul 2009
• Healthy workplaces and ethical environments: a staff nurse's perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• Teamwork: building healthier workplaces and providing safer patient care. 29 Jun 2009
• Building organizational capacity for a healthy work environment through role-based professional practice. 29 Jun 2009
• Management of severely injured children in road accidents in France: impact of the acute care organization on the outcome. 29 Jun 2009
• Pediatric specialized transport teams are associated with improved outcomes. 29 Jun 2009
• Effects of pharmacist participation in intensive care units on clinical and economic outcomes of critically ill patients with thromboembolic or infarction-related events. 29 Jun 2009
• On the ball: leadership for patient safety and learning in critical care. 29 Jun 2009
• Uncovering system errors using a rapid response team: cross-coverage caught in the crossfire. 29 Jun 2009
• The structure of critical care transfer networks. 29 Jun 2009
• Approaching hospital administration about adopting cooling technologies. 29 Jun 2009
• Physician attitudes toward regionalization of adult critical care: a national survey. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Critical Care'

Definition: Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.

Descriptor UI: D003422

Alternative terms: Critical Care; Care, Critical;

Related Mesh Headings: Intensive Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.190; N02.421.585.190;

History Note: 75