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pro vyhledávání: '"Timothy P. Hofer"'
Autor:
Peter L. Almenoff, Timothy P. Hofer, James A. Deddens, Marta L. Render, Ron W. Freyberg, Douglas P. Wagner, Alfred F. Connors
Publikováno v:
Critical care medicine. 36(4)
A valid metric is critical to measure and report intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes and drive innovation in a national system.To update and validate the Veterans Affairs (VA) ICU severity measure (VA ICU).A validated logistic regression model was app
Autor:
Douglas P. Wagner, Karen Bickel, Stephen Timmons, Ron W. Freyberg, Siva Sivaganesin, Joseph A. Johnston, H. Myra Kim, Timothy P. Hofer, Marta L. Render, Deborah E. Welsh, Alfred F. Connors, James A. Deddens
Publikováno v:
Critical care medicine. 33(5)
Objective: To quantify the variability in risk-adjusted mortality and length of stay of Veterans Affairs intensive care units using a computer-based severity of illness measure. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: A stratified random sample
Autor:
Marta L. Render, Deborah E. Welsh, Joseph A. Johnston, Timothy P. Hofer, Stephen Timmons, Alfred F. Connors, Siu Hui, Jennifer Daley, Douglas P. Wagner, H. Myra Kim
Publikováno v:
Critical care medicine. 31(6)
Comparison of outcome among intensive care units (ICUs) requires risk adjustment for differences in severity of illness and risk of death at admission to the ICU, historically obtained by costly chart review and manual data entry.To accurately estima
Publikováno v:
Annals of internal medicine. 138(11)
Common methods of benchmarking clinical performance rarely, if ever, account for admission source and, in particular, the effect of a patient being transferred from one medical center to another. Small biases in comparisons of observed versus expecte
Publikováno v:
Critical care medicine. 29(3)
To determine the influence of changes in acute physiology scores (APS) and other patient characteristics on predicting intensive care unit (ICU) readmission.Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study.Single large university medical intensive ca
Autor:
Anne E. Sales, Lena M. Chen, Edward H. Kennedy, Marta L. Render, Wyndy L. Wiitala, Timothy P. Hofer
Publikováno v:
Archives of Internal Medicine. 172:1220
Background Critical care resource use accounts for almost 1% of US gross domestic product and varies widely among hospitals. However, we know little about the initial decision to admit a patient to the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods To describe h