Severity of illness and risk of readmission to intensive care: a meta-analysis

Severity of illness and risk of readmission to intensive care: a meta-analysis

Background: Almost one in every 10 patients who survive intensive care will be readmitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) during the same hospitalisation. The association between increasing severity of illness (widely calculated in ICU patients) with risk of readmission to ICU has not been system...

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Main Authors: Frost, S., Alexandrou, Evan, Bogdanovski, T., Salamonson, Y., Davidson, Patricia, Parr, M., Hillman, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2009
Subjects:
Severity of illness
Meta-analysis
Readmission to intensive care
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31950

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