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Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital

Intensive care remains an area of high acuity and high mortality across the globe. With a rapidly aging population, the disease burden requiring intensive care is growing. The cost of critical care also is rising with new technology becoming available rapidly. We present the all-cause mortality resu...

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Autor principal: Siddiqui, Shahla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816448
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.171401
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Sumario:Intensive care remains an area of high acuity and high mortality across the globe. With a rapidly aging population, the disease burden requiring intensive care is growing. The cost of critical care also is rising with new technology becoming available rapidly. We present the all-cause mortality results of 5 years database established in a restructured, large public hospital in Singapore, looking at all three types of Intensive Care Units present in our hospital. These include medical, surgical, and coronary care units.