Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?

Background: There are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies forthe management of ICU stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of ICU r...

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Main Authors: Sedaghat Siyahkal, Mojtaba, Khatami, Farnaz
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322340/
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spelling pubmed-43223402015-02-18 Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary? Sedaghat Siyahkal, Mojtaba Khatami, Farnaz Original Article Background: There are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies forthe management of ICU stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of ICU resources. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2014-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4322340/ /pubmed/25695001 Text en © 2014 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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author Sedaghat Siyahkal, Mojtaba
Khatami, Farnaz
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Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
author_facet Sedaghat Siyahkal, Mojtaba
Khatami, Farnaz
author_sort Sedaghat Siyahkal, Mojtaba
title Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
title_short Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
title_full Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
title_fullStr Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
title_full_unstemmed Short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
title_sort short stay in general intensive care units: is it always necessary?
description Background: There are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies forthe management of ICU stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of ICU resources.
publisher Iran University of Medical Sciences
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322340/
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