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Title
The effects of ICU admission and discharge times on mortality in Finland.
Authors
Uusaro, Ari; Kari, Aarno; Ruokonen, Esko
Abstract
Hospital mortality increases if acutely ill patients are admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays. Night discharges may increase mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients but the effect of ICU admission time on mortality is not known. We studied the effects of ICU admission and discharge times on mortality and the time of death in critically ill patients.
Publication
Intensive care medicine, 2003, Vol 29, Issue 12, p2144