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01-07-2019 | Care | Editorial

Learning from aftercare to improve acute care

Authors: Timothy S. Walsh, Ruth Endacott

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2019

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Only a few decades ago, intensive care medicine was exclusively viewed as a speciality that used technology to support the organs of critically ill patients who otherwise were almost certain to die from their precipitating illness or its complications. Much has changed. We still provide multiple organ support, and strive to underpin this with high-quality evidence. However, as a speciality we recognise that our care should not necessarily end at the ICU door when our patients are discharged, typically to the care of wide-ranging medical specialists scattered across acute hospitals. …

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Title: Learning from aftercare to improve acute care
Authors: Timothy S. Walsh
Ruth Endacott
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Care
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05657-3

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