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Critical Care
Published in: Critical Care 1/2007

01-02-2007 | Letter

Referrals to intensive care: a region-wide audit

Authors: Lawrence McCrossan, William Bickerstaffe, Sobhy M Mostafa, Louisa Anderson, Lyndsay Cheater, David Jayson, Sarah Mitchell, Andrew Twist, Julie Wood

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2007

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We report the results of a 1-month audit conducted in six hospitals in the Mersey region of the UK. We assessed all referrals to the intensive care unit (ICU), looking at the circumstances of each patient referred; that is, the source, time and reason for referral, the grade of referring and assessing doctors, whether consultants were involved in decision-making as recommended by the Department of Health [1], reasons for admission or refusal to the intensive care unit, and the patient outcome. …
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Department of Health: Guidelines on Admission to and Discharge from Intensive Care and High Dependency Units. London: Department of Health; 1996.
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Title
Referrals to intensive care: a region-wide audit
Authors
Lawrence McCrossan
William Bickerstaffe
Sobhy M Mostafa
Louisa Anderson
Lyndsay Cheater
David Jayson
Sarah Mitchell
Andrew Twist
Julie Wood
Publication date
01-02-2007
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2007
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc5134

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