Impact of intensive care unit discharge time on patient outcome.

Fran A. Priestap; Claudio M. Martin

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Impact of intensive care unit discharge time on patient outcome.

January 12, 2011

Priestap FA, Martin CM. Crit Care Med. 2006;34(12):2946-2951.

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The investigators analyzed intensive care unit (ICU) discharges in 31 Canadian hospitals and found that patients discharged to another unit at night had a higher risk of mortality than those discharged during the day.

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