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Identifying the Patient-at-Risk: Technology and ICU Outreach Services

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Intensive Care Medicine

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Abstract

The provision of intensive care to critically-ill patients is a very costly endeavor. Intensive care units (ICUs) account for approximately 10% of inpatient acute care beds in the United States [1, 2], and this proportion is expected to increase as our population ages [3].

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP (Head) (Head)

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Scales, D.C., Granton, J., Sibbald, W.J. (2003). Identifying the Patient-at-Risk: Technology and ICU Outreach Services. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5548-0_90

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