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How to Evaluate Performance of Adult Intensive Care Units: A 30Year Experience

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Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

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The performance of an Intensive Care unit (ICU) has different aspects. For many years, the performance was synonymous with the standard mortality ratio (SMR). But nowadays, other aspects of performance are considered: from the patients, families, nurses, doctors and provider’s points of view. Several studies, on the other hand, have demonstrated the relationship between organisation and performance.

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France

    J. R. Le Gall & E. Azoulay

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  1. Department of Perioperative Medicine Intensive Care and Emergency, Trieste University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy

    Antonino Gullo

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Philip D. Lumb

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Le Gall, J.R., Azoulay, E. (2005). How to Evaluate Performance of Adult Intensive Care Units: A 30Year Experience. In: Gullo, A., Lumb, P.D. (eds) Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0350-4_9

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