tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive . | Available online http content 8 2 R99 Research Open Access Case mix outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult general critical care units in England Wales and Northern Ireland the Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database David A Harrison1 Anthony R Brady2 and Kathy Rowan3 Statistician Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre London UK 2Senior Statistician Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre London UK 3Director Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre London UK Correspondence David A Harrison david@ Received 6 November 2003 Revisions requested 6 January 2004 Revisions received 28 January 2004 Accepted 13 February 2004 Published 26 February 2004 Critical Care 2004 8 R99-R111 DOI cc2834 This article is online at http content 8 2 R99 2004 Harrison et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction The present paper describes the methods of data collection and validation employed in the Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre Case Mix Programme CMP a national comparative audit of outcome for adult critical care admissions. The paper also describes the case mix outcome and activity of the admissions in the Case Mix Programme Database CMPD . Methods The CMP collects data on consecutive admissions to adult general critical care units in England Wales and Northern Ireland. Explicit steps are taken to ensure the accuracy of the data including use of a dataset specification of initial and refresher training courses and of local and central validation of submitted data for incomplete illogical and inconsistent values. Criteria for evaluating clinical databases developed by the Directory of Clinical Databases were applied to