Author Karen Timmons President,CEO Joint Commission International Oak Brook, Illinois, USA [email protected] The process of external quality evaluation against consensus healthcare standards, commonly referred to as “Accreditation”, is one of the most effective means for standardising care processes in healthcare organisations....
READ MOREAuthor Armand R.J. Girbes Professor Internist-Intensivist, Clinical Pharmacologist University Hospital VU, Medical Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands [email protected] Introduction In 2001, Van den Berghe et al. published the results of a study, demonstrating a clinically and statistically significant...
READ MOREAuthors Smith Jean, PhD. Division of Critical Care Medicine Robert Wood Johnson, School of Medicine University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Cooper University Hospital Camden, New Jersey, USA Ismail Cinel, MD, PhD. Division of Critical Care Medicine Robert...
READ MOREAuthor Tim Wolfe, MD Associate Professor Department of Surgery, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA [email protected] Evidence that Early Detection and Management Improves Outcomes and Reduces Resource Utilisation Introduction There are several important issues concerning intra-abdominal...
READ MOREAuthors Karen K. Giuliano, RN (above) Principal Scientist Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Massachusetts USA [email protected] Elaine R. Bloniasz, RN Clinical Nurse III Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts USA Peggy Lambert,...
READ MOREAuthor Jean-Louis Vincent Department of Intensive Care Erasmus Hospital,Free University Brussels Brussels, Belgium As we look out on the wet and windy winter weather, we may find ourselves looking forward to spring, and springtime in Brussels is, of course, synonymous with the International Symposium of Intensive...
READ MOREAuthor Kees H. Polderman, MD, PhD Department of Intensive Care University Medical Center Utrecht [email protected] The 1st Therapeutic Temperature Management Congress There is an increasing awareness in the critical care community of the importance of body temperature in determining outcome...
READ MOREAuthor Nathalie Danjoux, MSc Senior Policy Analyst Critical Care Secretariat,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] "Through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require...
READ MOREAuthor Laura Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine,University Health Network Toronto General Hospital,Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] The Canadian national health insurance program for many Canadians represents a fundamental and defining value of...
READ MOREAuthor James Downar, MD, FRCPC Clinical Fellow Division of Palliative Care, Division of Critical Care Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Communication is an important issue in the Canadian healthcare system. Recent studies have...
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