Intensive Care Units - Statistics & numerical data
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

30 Oct 2009 We reviewed and classified all patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England and Wales to the National Patient Safety Agency for the first quarter of 2008. A total of 6649 incidents were submitted from 141 organisations ... Read more...

High occupancy increases the risk of early death or readmission after transfer from intensive care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a lack of intensive care unit beds was leading to premature patient discharge from the intensive care unit and subsequent early readmission or death. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: A single Canadian ... Read more...

Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine a) if a checklist covering a diverse group of intensive care unit protocols and objectives would improve clinician consideration of these domains and b) if improved consideration would change practice patterns. DESIGN: Pre- ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care Units - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 30 Oct 2009
• High occupancy increases the risk of early death or readmission after transfer from intensive care. 29 Sep 2009
• Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices. 29 Sep 2009
• Did we learn anything from Humpty Dumpty? 29 Sep 2009
• Impact of hypothermia (below 36 degrees C) in the rural trauma patient. 17 Sep 2009
• Using a longitudinal model to estimate the effect of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection on length of stay in an intensive care unit. 15 Sep 2009
• [Using intensive medicine in progressive cases?] 14 Sep 2009
• The epidemiology of hospitalized head injury in British Columbia, Canada. 30 Aug 2009
• The use of infection probability score and sequential organ failure assessment scoring systems in predicting mechanical ventilation requirement and duration. 30 Aug 2009
• Methods and preliminary results for a data linkage project to determine long-term survival after intensive care unit admission. 30 Aug 2009
• Colonization with multiple Staphylococcus aureus strains among patients in European intensive care units. 30 Aug 2009
• [Comments about the contribution: reservoirs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in intensive care units published in the Bundesgesundheitsblatt in March 2009] 30 Aug 2009
• Expedited admission of patients decreases duration of mechanical ventilation and shortens ICU stay. 30 Aug 2009
• The worsening of ED on-call coverage in California: 6-year trend. 30 Aug 2009
• Health-related quality of life after intensive care unit discharge: A comparison between 2 standard antibiotic regimens. 30 Jul 2009
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and high bed occupancy. 30 Jul 2009
• Subgroup mortality probability models: are they necessary for specialized intensive care units? 30 Jul 2009
• Prevalence and mortality associated with cytomegalovirus infection in nonimmunosuppressed patients in the intensive care unit. 30 Jul 2009
• Outbreak of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a polyvalent intensive care unit: clinical, epidemiological analysis and PFGE-printing evolution. 27 Jul 2009
• APACHE III outcome prediction in patients admitted to the intensive care unit after liver transplantation: a retrospective cohort study. 27 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Intensive Care Units'

Definition: Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.

Descriptor UI: D007362

Alternative terms: Intensive Care Units; Care Unit, Intensive; Care Units, Intensive; Intensive Care Unit; Unit, Intensive Care; Units, Intensive Care;

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

Tree Number: N02.278.388.493;

History Note: 66(63)