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Twenty-four hour presence of physicians in the ICU

Intensive-care units (ICUs) must be utilised in the most efficient way. Greater input of intensivists leads to better outcomes and more efficient use of resources. 'Closed' ICUs operate as functional units with a competent on-site team and their own management under the supervision of a fu...

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Autores principales: Burchardi, Hilmar, Moerer, Onnen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11353929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1012
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description Intensive-care units (ICUs) must be utilised in the most efficient way. Greater input of intensivists leads to better outcomes and more efficient use of resources. 'Closed' ICUs operate as functional units with a competent on-site team and their own management under the supervision of a full-time intensivist directly responsible for the treatment. Twenty-four-hour coverage by on-site physicians is mandatory to maintain the service. At night, the on-site physicians need not necessarily be specialists as long as an experienced intensivist is on call. Because of the shortage of intensivists, such standards will be difficult to maintain everywhere, but they should, at least, be mandatory for larger hospitals serving as regional centres.
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spelling pubmed-1372732003-02-27 Twenty-four hour presence of physicians in the ICU Burchardi, Hilmar Moerer, Onnen Crit Care Review Intensive-care units (ICUs) must be utilised in the most efficient way. Greater input of intensivists leads to better outcomes and more efficient use of resources. 'Closed' ICUs operate as functional units with a competent on-site team and their own management under the supervision of a full-time intensivist directly responsible for the treatment. Twenty-four-hour coverage by on-site physicians is mandatory to maintain the service. At night, the on-site physicians need not necessarily be specialists as long as an experienced intensivist is on call. Because of the shortage of intensivists, such standards will be difficult to maintain everywhere, but they should, at least, be mandatory for larger hospitals serving as regional centres. BioMed Central 2001 2001-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC137273/ /pubmed/11353929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1012 Text en Copyright © 2001 BioMed Central Ltd on behalf of the copyright holder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137273/
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