Understanding intensive care unit benchmarking

Intensive Care Med. 2017 Nov;43(11):1703-1707. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4760-x. Epub 2017 Mar 15.

Jorge I F Salluh^{1

2}, Marcio Soares^{3

4}, Mark T Keegan⁵

¹ Department of Critical Care and Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rua Diniz Cordeiro, 30-3° andar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22281-100, Brazil. jorgesalluh@gmail.com.
² Programa de Pós-Graduação em Clínica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jorgesalluh@gmail.com.
³ Department of Critical Care and Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rua Diniz Cordeiro, 30-3° andar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22281-100, Brazil.
⁴ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Clínica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵ Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

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Keywords: Discharge Policy; Nosocomial Infection Rate; Readmission Rate; Simplified Acute Physiology Score; Unplanned Extubations.

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