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01-08-2014 | Understanding the Disease

Ten diseases you need to know if you want to be a critical care specialist in Hong Kong

Authors: Gavin M. Joynt, Wong Wai Tat

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 8/2014

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The Hong Kong Hospital Authority provides a high standard of intensive care for residents at nominal cost. The territory-wide mean predicted risk of hospital death by APACHE III-j score is 26 %, with a risk-adjusted hospital mortality of 0.8, and hospital median and mean length of stay 2.1 and 4.2 days [1]. While excellence in diagnosis and supportive care remain the cornerstone of ICU management internationally, practice in Hong Kong presents some special challenges. …

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Title: Ten diseases you need to know if you want to be a critical care specialist in Hong Kong
Authors: Gavin M. Joynt
Wong Wai Tat
Publication date: 01-08-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 8/2014
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3329-1

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