Background The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on health
systems, with rapidly increasing demand for healthcare in hospitals and intensive care units …

Background Nurses are pivotal in the provision of high quality care in acute hospitals.
However, the optimal dosing of the number of nurses caring for patients remains elusive. In …

Importance Infection is frequent among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Contemporary information about the types of infections, causative pathogens, and outcomes …

Background There is a need to better define the epidemiology of sepsis in intensive care
units (ICUs) around the globe. Methods The Intensive Care over Nations (ICON) audit …

Background Despite the central role of nurses in intensive care, a relationship between
intensive care nurse workload/staffing ratios and survival has not been clearly established …

Objective To determine associations between variations in registered nurse staffing levels in
adult critical care units and outcomes such as patient, nurse, organisational and family …

Purpose Detailed information on organization and process of care in intensive care units
(ICU) in emerging countries is scarce. Here, we investigated the impact of organizational …

Background Traumatic injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but
epidemiologic data about trauma patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission …

Purpose To investigate the impact of organizational characteristics and processes of care on
hospital mortality and resource use in patients with cancer admitted to intensive care units …

ICUs are an essential but expensive part of all modern hospitals. With increasingly limited
healthcare funding, methods to reduce expenditure without negatively influencing patient …