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Published in: Critical Care 2/2010

01-04-2010 | Letter

Dividing intensive care specialists according to their backgrounds is not useful to improve quality in intensive care

Authors: Jan-Peter Braun, Claudia Spies

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 2/2010

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We have some strong concerns regarding the principle message in Billington and colleagues' article [1] - namely, that intensivists' base speciality of training may be associated with variations in practice patterns and outcome in critical care patients. We caution against propagating the concept of dividing intensive care specialists according to their backgrounds. …
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Billington EO, Zygun DA, Stelfox HT, Peets AD: Intensivists' base specialty of training is associated with variations in mortality and practice pattern. Crit Care 2009, 13: R209. 10.1186/cc8227PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
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Rothen HU, Stricker K, Einfalt J, Bauer P, Metnitz PG, Moreno RP, Takala J: Variability in outcome and resource use in intensive care units. Intensive Care Med 2007, 33: 1329-1336. 10.1007/s00134-007-0690-3CrossRefPubMed
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Bertolini G, Rossi C, Brazzi L, Radrizziani D, Rossi G, Arrighi E, Simini B: The relationship between labour cost per patient and the size of intensive care units: a multicentre prospective study. Intensive Care Med 2003, 29: 2307-2323. 10.1007/s00134-003-2019-1CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Dividing intensive care specialists according to their backgrounds is not useful to improve quality in intensive care
Authors
Jan-Peter Braun
Claudia Spies
Publication date
01-04-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 2/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8903

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