TY  - JOUR
T1  - Addressing the growth in intensive care  : Comment on “intensive care unit admitting patterns in the veterans affairs health care system”
AU  - Seymour CW, Kahn JM
Y1  - 2012/09/10
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3773
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1226
EP  - 1226
VL  - 172
IS  - 16
N2  - 
More than 50 000 patients receive intensive care each day in the United States,1 and the need for critical care is expected to increase with the aging population. But this growth in critical illness is not without consequences. When intensive care units (ICUs) are full, sick patients in the emergency department or ward may experience admission delays, and considerable evidence suggests that these delays are associated with attributable morbidity and mortality.2- 3 Full ICUs may also strain intensivist physicians, leading to burnout and preventable medical errors.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3773
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3773
ER  -