• Journal of critical care · Mar 2006

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    The evolution of intensive care unit performance assessment.

    • Marius Terblanche and Neill K J Adhikari.
    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, B 702 Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5. marius.terblanche@icunet.org
    • J Crit Care. 2006 Mar 1;21(1):19-22.

    AbstractIntensive care units (ICUs) share the problems experienced by the health care system at large. Various approaches to define and manage the quality of care patients receive in the ICU have been proposed. Performance measurement involves the collection of data to evaluate an ICU's performance against itself (over time), other ICUs, or other appropriate benchmarks. Successful performance assessment requires the quantification of relevant indexes of performance. Although these indexes are increasingly being developed, it will be some time before widely recognized, validated systems are available.

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