Articles: intensive-care-units.
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Critical care medicine · Aug 1998
Editorial CommentQuality of care: national or international standards?
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 1998
Proxy-perceived prior health status and hospital outcome among the critically ill: is there any relationship?
To measure the health status of critically ill patients prior to hospital admission and to study the relationship between prior health status (PHS) and hospital mortality. ⋯ The PHS of critically ill patients varied according to admission category. Given the instruments used and population studied, there was no association between PHS and hospital outcome.
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Southern medical journal · Jul 1998
Decrease in costs for management of lower airway disease in the pediatric intensive care unit.
We investigated whether a recently restructured pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) had a decrease in the cost of patient care over the years. ⋯ The costs of management for these previously healthy patients treated for lower airway disease decreased over the study period. We speculate that the time related decrease in costs is a reflection of the learning curve of the pediatric critical care team. The decrease in POC did not shift costs to other areas of the hospital.