Stakeholder Views Regarding Patient Discharge from Intensive Care: Suboptimal Quality and Opportunities for Improvement

Pin Li; Jamie M Boyd; William A Ghali; Henry T Stelfox

doi:10.1155/2015/457431

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2015)

Stakeholder Views Regarding Patient Discharge from Intensive Care: Suboptimal Quality and Opportunities for Improvement

Pin Li,
Jamie M Boyd,
William A Ghali,
Henry T Stelfox

Affiliations

Pin Li: Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services – Calgary Zone, Canada
Jamie M Boyd: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Calgary Zone, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
William A Ghali: Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services – Calgary Zone, Canada
Henry T Stelfox: Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services – Calgary Zone, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/457431
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 22, no. 2
pp. 109 – 118

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To provide the first description of intensive care unit (ICU) discharge practices from the perspective of Canadian ICU administrators, and ICU providers from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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