Night-time intensivists - waste of resources or failure of process optimization?
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Night-time intensivists - waste of resources or failure of process optimization?
Dr Levy [1] commented on the study of Kerlin and colleagues [2] on the relevance, or futility, of night-time intensivists. Kerlin and colleagues compared in-hospital night-time intensivist presence with night-time phone consultations by daytime intensivists (control) with regard to ICU length of stay, hospital mortality, and readmission rate. Randomized 7 day blocks of night-time intensivist pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc13170