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- Title
Variation in intensive care unit outcomes by day of week: no weak-end.
- Authors
Bell, Chaim M.; Scales, Damon C.
- Abstract
Comments on the variation in intensive care unit outcomes by day of week. Concept behind several proposed quality indicators of the essential feature of high quality care; Question on the true immunity of intensive care units to variation in important patient outcomes based upon time of day or day of the week; Circumstances of delaying the admission of deteriorating ward patients during periods when the intensive care unit is under pressure.
- Subjects
INTENSIVE care units; HOSPITAL wards; CRITICAL care medicine; HEALTH outcome assessment; EVALUATION; EVALUATION of medical care
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2004, Vol 30, Issue 5, p739
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-004-2240-6