Abstract
Analysis of Chinese ICU staffing in relation to final outcome yields comparable results as those reported in Western ICUs. This underlines the general principle that we would all like to apply in our hospitals; that is, availability of knowledgeable staff that are adequately trained to recognize and treat an acutely deteriorating critically ill patient as soon as possible.
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Analysis of Chinese ICU staffing in relation to final outcome yields comparable results as those reported in Western ICUs
* Correspondence: p.spronk@gelre.nl 1Department of ICU, Gelre Hospitals, Apeldoorn 7300 DS, The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article warn us to be aware of the possibility of a quality gap during off-hours compared to daytime, with respect to the presence of an intensivist during the night
In the previous issue of Critical Care, Ju and colleagues report on a propensity score matching analysis evaluating the effect of admission time on mortality in an ICU in mainland China in a retrospective dataset [1]
Summary
* Correspondence: p.spronk@gelre.nl 1Department of ICU, Gelre Hospitals, Apeldoorn 7300 DS, The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article warn us to be aware of the possibility of a quality gap during off-hours compared to daytime, with respect to the presence of an intensivist during the night. A meta-analysis, including 52 out of 16,774 citations, evaluated whether intensivist staffing patterns influence hospital mortality after ICU admission [14].
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