Intensive care units (ICUs) clinical outcomes, costs and decisionmaking

... Intensive Care Units (ICUs) Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Decisionmaking NOVEMBER 1984 This case study was performed as a part of OTA’S Assessment of Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare ... Imaging Technology: A Clinical, Industrial, and Policy Analysis; Earl P Steinberg and Alan Cohen (OTA-HCS-27) Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Clinical Outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2017, 20:12

... Hospital costs of central lineassociated bloodstream infections and cost-effectiveness of closed vs open infusion containers The case of Intensive Care Units in Italy Cost Effectiveness and Resource ... 67.3% in the presence of this type of HAI (Table 6) Cost-Effectiveness of Closed vs Open Infusion Container The closed infusion co...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... examining the impact of earplugs and eye masks on the critical care patients’ sleep, found that 58.8% of the patients in the intervention group and 25% of the patients in the non-intervention ... significantly lower the noise level and the number of alarms of hemodynamic monitoring in the surgical ICU Noise reduction strategies included...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... objective of this study was to examine the views of the families, physicians and nurses in Brazilian Intensive Care Units regarding end-of-life decisions, involving a conscious and an unconscious patient ... families, physicians and nurses views on two hypothetical clinical scenarios Critical Care 2010 14:R235 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... onitoring of quality indicators fits into the daily routines in the hospital setting (n=140) 10) M onitoring of quality indicators can be done without huge investments (n=140) 11) M onitoring of ... as: de Vos et al., Implementing quality indicators in intensive care units: exploring barriers to and facilitators of behaviour change Implementation Sc...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... barbiturate and carbon monoxide poisoned patients as potential organ donors for cardiac allograft transplantation [13] That survey supported the use of poisoned patients and those with a history of drug ... several case reports and case series of patients successfully being transplanted with organs from acutely poisoned patients The major reports of transpl...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... to ask for the current practice of analgesia and sedation in German ICUs Methods Data collection From an address database of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ... survey shows that morphine did not have a major role in analgesia and sedation in German ICUs Specifically in Germany, piritramide is a frequently used agent fo...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... and activity Table describes measures of case mix, outcome and activity for patients requiring chronic renal dialysis and admissions of all other patients for whom evidence was available to allow ... Database The Case Mix Programme (CMP) is a national comparative audit of adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern I...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; ICU, intensive care unit; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score The fact that the number of dialysis patients admitted to ICUs did not increase ... facilities for dialysis and haemofiltration The study of Hutchison and colleagues showing that dialysis patients have similar ICU mortality and length of stay to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... significant Figure Summary of cases of acute kidney injury and incidence from the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database, 1996–2005 acute kidney injury and incidence ... confidence intervals) for the association of acute kidney injury and hospital mortality stratified by two-year intervals from the Australia New Zealan...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... waived the need for informed consent Further details on the setting of the study are described elsewhere [9,10] Analysis of risk factors for the acquisition of NP (model 1) In model 1, we studied risk ... the ICU Overall, in 214 of the 1,876 admissions (11.4%) the patient died in the ICU More details of risk factors and outcomes are shown in Table A...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... days in the ICU, average length of stay, number of mechanically ventilated patients per year, and average duration of ventilation Part 2: Data relating to analgesia and sedation These data included ... potential changes that had occurred in the interim period between this survey and the 2002 survey Part 4: Pharmacological and regional analgesia techniques for analgesia an...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... Rigby: A disparity between physician attitudes and practice regarding hyperglycemia in pediatric intensive care units in the United States: a survey on actual practice habits Critical Care 2010 14:R11 ... conduction of surveys, data gathering and analysis, and formal writing of this manuscript All authors read and approved the final manu...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... participated in all stages of manuscript preparation LN, OM, VD and AS were involved in conducting the study JS and MF participated in conceiving and designing the study, in statistical analyses, and ... computerized patient database system (medical and administrative) in the community and in the hospital All the data were collected, entered into the study datab...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... as: Meyer et al., Dramatic increase of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant E coli in German intensive care units: secular trends in antibiotic drug use and bacterial resistance, 2001 to 2008 ... 85% of total antibiotic use [34] Furthermore, use of quinolones in therapy and prophylaxis, especially in commercial poultry farming, con...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22