Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: ICUs worldwide: Results of a nationwide survey of Colombian intensive care units. | Available online http content 6 5 405 Commentary ICUs worldwide Results of a nationwide survey of Colombian intensive care units Edgar Celis Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Universidad El Bosque Colombia and President Colombian Critical Medicine and Intensive Care Association Colombia Correspondence Edgar Celis famcelis@ Published online 2 August 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 405-406 This article is online at http content 6 5 405 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Sixty-three of 89 identified intensive care units in Colombia Evaluation of Intensive Care in Colombia participated in this voluntary study. A convenience sample of 20 intensive care units each submitting 200 patients or more was chosen from which the following information is presented. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Center UK protocol was used to evaluate patient severity length of stay raw and anticipated mortality intensive care unit patient admission rejection criteria and human and technologic resources available. Information was drawn from public and private institutions. Keywords admissions Columbia intensive care mortality resources Colombia s first intensive care unit ICU was established in the early 1960s at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Bogota. This was soon followed by additional facilities at the Shaio Clinic Military Hospital San Jose Hospital and Caja Nacional de Prevision. Similar to the international community Colombian critical care has expanded to meet the needs of improving the increasingly complex care mandated by improvements in health care delivery medical technology and vulnerable populations at the extremes of age. The Clinical Epidemiology and Bio-Statistics Unit of the Javeriana Medical School and the Colombian Critical Medicine and Intensive Care Association collaborated in 1997 to establish an Intensive Care Unit System Delivery evaluation program in parallel with .
