Impact of increased numbers of intensive care consultants on outcome in a central London teaching hospital
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Victoria Metaxa; M Ervine; C Bell; Phillip A Hopkins; K Peters; A Feehan; T Chang
- Source
- Critical Care
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
health care facilities, manpower, and services
technology, industry, and agriculture
Alternative medicine
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Outcome (game theory)
respiratory tract diseases
Teaching hospital
Standardized mortality ratio
Intensive care
Poster Presentation
Emergency medicine
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
Medicine
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1364-8535
The standardised mortality ratio (SMR) is a key parameter by which ICUs quantify their performance. We report the effect of increased ICU consultant numbers on mortality and SMR in a central London teaching hospital.