ICU Bouncebacks: Rates, Reasons, and Risk Factors. Critical Care Alert (10/1/2001)
...PATIENTS 15 MOST LIKELY to be readmitted to the ICU from a general ward? * Patient A is 56...and was transferred 24 hours ago from the ICU with a recent upper gastrointestinal bleed...Patient A was most likely to return to the ICU from a general ward you were correct. In...
ICU Nursing Staff Workload and Patient Mortality. Critical Care Alert (10/1/2000)
ICU Nursing Staff Workload and Patient Mortality...Among 1050 adult patients admitted to an ICU, those exposed to high nursing staff workload...to a community hospitals medical-surgical ICU during a four-year period in relation to...
ICU physicians' judgments better than "scoring systems" at predicting outcomes. Health & Medicine Week (5/31/2004)
...support use in the intensive care unit (ICU) and patient mortality, according to new...preferences for levels of care should an ICU admission become necessary," said lead...preferences, the physician prediction of ICU survival was much less likely to influence...
ICU Medical says prognosis strong Molder predicts it will continue robust growth.(Cover Story)(Brief Article)(Cover Story) Plastics News (9/9/2002)
Byline: Roger Renstrom ICU Medical Inc. is boosting injection molding...house and looking at foreign production. ICU has 42 presses for injection molding thermoplastics...on it yet, [but] we have plans.'' ICU develops disposable intravenous connectors...
Reducing ICU costs with computerized tools. (intensive care unit) Healthcare Financial Management (6/1/1995)
...savings in health care lies in managing ICU utilization. Computerized tools that collect...about patient severity of illness, monitor ICU utilization, and track patient outcomes...States are dedicated to intensive care, ICU patients account for 20 to 40 percent of...
ICU Telemedicine Can Improve Patient Outcomes.(intensive care units) Hospital Medicine Alert (10/1/2011)
ICU Telemedicine Can Improve Patient Outcomes Abstract...already in place, implementation of a 24-hour ICU telemedicine system that was well accepted...critically ill patients before and after tele-ICU reengineering of critical care processes...
Electronic ICU to serve 8 hospitals Better patient care, lower costs seen by Advocate officials Chicago Sun-Times (12/16/2002)
...Doctors and nurses at an "electronic ICU" in Oak Brook will help direct patient...speaker, enabling specialists in the e-ICU to see and talk to patients, doctors and nurses miles away in the hospital ICU.The bedside camera will turn on when activated...
Predicting ICU Readmission After Cardiac Surgery. Critical Care Alert (1/1/2000)
Predicting ICU Readmission After Cardiac Surgery Abstract & Commentary Synopsis: Patients most likely to be readmitted to the ICU were those with the longest time in the ICU prior to discharge. The most common reason for readmission...
ICU Patients With Low Severity of Illness: How Many? Critical Care Alert (11/1/1998)
ICU Patients With Low Severity of Illness: How...estimated probability of death and did not receive ICU-specific interventions. Source: Rosenthal...included APACHE III Acute Physiology Score, ICU admission source, and ICU admission diagnosis...
ICU stays having a significant impact on hospital margins.(Intensive care units) Healthcare Financial Management (7/1/2006)
...Medicare admissions not requiring a stay in the ICU in this type of hospital increased only...with patients who require admission to an ICU, the average length of stay was significantly...longer than for admissions not requiring an ICU stay. Over each of the three years ...
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