Intensive Care Data — II: A New Unit's First Two Years
| Autor: | G. D. Phillips, Austin Kl |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Adolescent Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intensive care Humans Medicine Operations management 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Computers business.industry Australia 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Workload Length of Stay Hospitalization Intensive Care Units Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Computer data storage Female business Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 7:329-335 |
| ISSN: | 1448-0271 0310-057X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0310057x7900700403 |
| Popis: | Intensive care units now exist in a large number of hospitals. They vary from one another in many respects, but have one thing in common — high running costs. There are few published reports in recent years of the workload, results and effectiveness of intensive care units. This paper presents data obtained from a new unit in 1977 and 1978, using a computer-controlled system of data storage and analysis. This has provided useful information of an administrative and clinical nature, and has enabled us to compare data from year to year, as well as allowing comparisons with data from other units. The potential exists for such a system to be used in evaluating criteria for admission and termination of care, and for cost-effectiveness studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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