The Use Of Intensive Care: A Comparison Of A University And Community Hospital
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 3 (2) , 49-64
Abstract
We compared 223 consecutive intensive care unit (ICU) admissions to a community hospital (CH) with 613 such admissions at a university hospital (UH) using a new clinical scale aimed at quantifying severity of illness.Keywords
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