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The network structure of critical care transfers, 1993 [PDF]
, 2007 Poster presented at Annual MeetingBackground: In light of wide variations between hospitals in their quality of critical care, some have proposed moving patients to better quality.
Iwashyna, Theodore J.
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Critical care use during the course of serious illness. [PDF]
, 2004 Despite its expense and importance, it is unknown how common critical care use is. We describe longitudinal patterns of critical care use among a nationally representative cohort of elderly patients monitored from the onset of common serious illnesses. A
Iwashyna, Theodore J.
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The Structure of Critical Care Transfer Networks [PDF]
, 2009 Rationale: Moving patients from low-performing hospitals to high-performing hospitals may improve patient outcomes. These transfers may be particularly important in critical care, where small relative improvements can yield substantial absolute changes ...
Kahn, Jeremy M. +4 more
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Understanding Disorders of Consciousness: Opportunities for Critical Care Nurses [PDF]
, 2021 BACKGROUND: Disorders of consciousness are powerful predictors of outcomes including mortality among critically ill patients. Encephalopathy, delirium, and coma are disorders of consciousness frequently encountered by critical care nurses but often ...
Mulkey, Malissa A.
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Critical Care before Lung Transplantation [PDF]
, 2018 Lung transplantation is widely accepted as the only viable treatment option for patients with end-stage lung disease. However, the imbalance between the number of suitable donor lungs available and the number of possible candidates often results in ...
김정민 +6 more
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Clinical components and associated behavioural aspects of a complex healthcare intervention : Multi-methods study of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care [PDF]
, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Prior, M. E. +24 more
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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2023 Background. High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) can be used in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, but the effect of HFNC on clinical outcomes in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) is ...
Yanping Du +11 more
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Positive effects of a nursing intervention on family-centered care in adult critical care
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Generally, families of critical care patients are not actively involved in the patients' care in meaningful ways. A family-centered care model formalizes each patient and the patient's family as the unit of care.
Mitchell, Marion +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2023 Background. Acute liver failure (ALF), previously known as fulminant hepatic failure, has become a common, rapidly progressive, and life-threatening catastrophic hepatic disease in intensive care unit (ICU) due to the continuous increase in drug abuse ...
Di Jin +12 more
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, 2004 While many descriptive studies about the UK model for critical care outreach have been published recently1, this publication documents a rigorous implementation and evaluation plan for determining the effect of a critical care outreach team in one ...
Chaboyer, Wendy
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