Abstract

The quality of intensive care (QIC) can be defined by several dimensions: structure, process and outcomes [1]. All Finnish ICUs contribute to the Finnish Intensive Care Quality Consortium (FICQC) with shared reports over the Internet. The FICQC chose to describe the quality of intensive care by four dimensions: patient outcome, patient selection, resource utilization and data completeness. The aim of this work was to develop a continuous, comprehensive and compact view of the quality of intensive care and to describe the effects of organizational changes on the performance.

Highlights

  • In order to find out the frequency rates of domestic and wild animal bites as well as the evaluation of the prevalence rates of rabies disease in the human population in the Province of Kerman, a retrospective study was designed to analyze statistically the collected recorded data related to this project

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  • Increases in the endotoxin dose induced significant log-linear responses in 8-iso-PGF2α and 15-ketodihydro-PGF2α (P < 0.001, P < 0.05, respectively) as depicted in Conclusions Our findings indicate that free radical-mediated lipid peroxidation and COX-mediated inflammatory response are dependent on the endotoxin dose in a log-linear fashion in this model

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Introduction

In order to find out the frequency rates of domestic and wild animal bites as well as the evaluation of the prevalence rates of rabies disease in the human population in the Province of Kerman, a retrospective study was designed to analyze statistically the collected recorded data related to this project. The aim of the present study is to investigate the value of quantitative (QC-ETA) and nonquantitative (NQC-ETA) surveillance cultures in predicting the causative pathogen of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients receiving antibiotic therapy. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mortality prediction power of central venous oxygen saturation (ScVO2) in critically ill patients suffering from major trauma and head trauma. The study investigated the prognostic value of the extravascular lung water index (EVLWI) determined by the single transpulmonary thermodilution technique and its relationship with physiologic indexes of lung injury in critically ill patients with septic shock in the ICU. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between blood glucose level measured on admission and hospital mortality with the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke patients.

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