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Regionalization of Critical Care Medicine Could Achieve Better Outcomes at Reduced Costs

April 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

IHC Care, an integrated, multi-hospital, nonprofit health care system in Utah, examined the delivery of critical care medicine in a multi-hospital system and developed analytic models to determine the potential impact of regionalization.

The Earlier the Longer

November 12, 2012 | Journal Article

Intensive care units should take a rigorous and nuanced approach to planning patient handoffs to improve patient safety and quality of care.

Practice Change and Culture Change in Implementing Geriatric Care Initiatives

November 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Recommendations from nurse managers on how to make lasting practice change.

SPEACS-2

May 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Bedside ICU nurses have an important role in helping nonspeaking patients communicate.

Intensive Labor

July 20, 2009 | Journal Article

In a study of 104 hospital NICUs, researchers define the problems that arise from inadequate support for nurses in the NICU and make recommendations to hospital CEO.

More Nurses, Better Patient Outcomes

September 1, 2001 | Journal Article

Why Isn't it Obvious?

A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.

Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.

Introducing Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Services in Seven Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle created an intervention designed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Experts Propose 18 Quality Measures to Improve Care of the Dying in ICUs

June 12, 2008 | Program Result Report

Members of the RWJF Critical Care End-of-Life Peer Workgroup conducted a series of five studies to develop ways to optimize care of patients dying in intensive care units (ICUs).

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