Association between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit
- 3 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 148 (11), 801
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-148-11-200806030-00002
Abstract
Some hospitals staff their intensive care units (ICUs) solely with critical care specialists, whereas others allow physicians without critical care training to manage ICU patients. Levy and colleag... Background: Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are thought to gain an added survival benefit from management by critical care physicians, but evidence of this benefit i...Keywords
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