Title | Evaluating Critical Care [electronic resource] : Using Health Services Research to Improve Quality / edited by William J. Sibbald, Julian F. Bion |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56719-3 |
Descript | XIII, 379 p. online resource |
Overview -- โ Critical Care: Problems, Boundaries and Outcomes -- Health Services Research: A Domain where Disciplines and Decision Makers Meet -- Methods of Measurement in Intensive Care -- The Structure of Intensive Care -- Process of Care Assessment and the Evaluation of Outcome from Intensive Care -- Severity of Illness -- Measuring Treatment Outcomes in Intensive Care: Mortality, Morbidity, and Organ Dysfunction -- Health-Related Quality of Life: During and Following Critical Care -- Quality of Life and Longer Term Outcomes -- Techniques for Acquiring Information -- Comparing ICU Populations: Background and Current Methods -- A Hospital-Wide System for Managing the Seriously Ill: A Model of Applied Health Systems Research -- Funding and Support -- Hypothesis Generation: Asking the Right Question, Getting the Correct Answer -- The Integration of Evidence Based Medicine and Health Services Research in the ICU -- Using Systematic Reviews to Inform Decision Makers -- Consensus Methods and Consumer Opinion -- Benchmarking in the ICU: The Measurement of Costs and Outcome to Analyze Efficiency and Efficacy -- Assessment of Medical Devices -- Health Informatics -- Databases, Registries and Networks -- Application and Interpretation: Using Data to Improve Outcomes -- Organizational Effects on Outcomes -- Geographical Differences in Outcomes -- Disaggregating Data: From Groups to Individuals -- Driving Improvements: Quality Management in the ICU -- Applied Health Services Research: Translating Evidence into Practice -- Translating the Evidence: Creating and Sustaining Change