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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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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-47112062016-01-26 Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital Siddiqui, Shahla Indian J Crit Care Med Brief Communication 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4711206/ /pubmed/26816448 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.171401 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title_full Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title_fullStr Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title_full_unstemmed Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title_short Mortality profile across our Intensive Care Units: A 5-year database report from a Singapore restructured hospital
title_sort mortality profile across our intensive care units: a 5-year database report from a singapore restructured hospital
topic Brief Communication
url 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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