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Nighttime Intensivist Staffing and Mortality among Critically Ill Patients

2012; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 366; Issue: 22 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmsa1201918

1533-4406

David J. Wallace, Derek C. Angus, Amber E. Barnato, Andrew A. Kramer, Jeremy M. Kahn,

Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy

Hospitals are increasingly adopting 24-hour intensivist physician staffing as a strategy to improve intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes. However, the degree to which nighttime intensivists are associated with improvements in the quality of ICU care is unknown.