Characteristics of deaths in paediatric intensive care: a 10-year study

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the patient mortality over a 10‐year period in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) including patient demographics, length of stay, cause and mode of death and to compare these findings with pre‐existing literature from the western world. Design: A retrospective ch...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nursing in critical care 2009-09, Vol.14 (5), p.235-240
Hauptverfasser:	Sands, Rebecca, Manning, Joseph C, Vyas, Harish, Rashid, Asrar
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Age Distribution Brain Death - diagnosis Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - trends Cause of Death - trends Child Child Mortality - trends Child, Preschool Death End-of-life care England - epidemiology Female Hospital Mortality - trends Hospitals, Teaching - trends Humans Infant Intensive Care Units, Pediatric - trends International Classification of Diseases - trends Length of Stay - trends Linear Models Male Medical Audit Nursing Paediatric intensive care Patient Admission - trends Retrospective Studies Service evaluation Sex Distribution Statistics, Nonparametric Terminal Care - trends Treatment Failure Withholding Treatment - trends
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