Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Year in review 2007: Critical Care - intensive care unit management. | Available online http content 12 5 229 Review Year in review 2007 Critical Care - intensive care unit management Clayton Barbieri1 Shannon S Carson2 and André Carlos Amaral1 Critical Care Department Hospital Brasilia ESHO SHIS QI 15 Cj G Brasilia DF 71635-200 Brazil 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine University of North Carolina 4134 Bioinformatics Building CB 7020 Chapel Hill NC 27599-7020 USA Corresponding author André Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral amaral@ Published 14 October 2008 This article is online at http content 12 5 229 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2008 12 229 doi cc6951 Abstract With the development of new technologies and drugs health care is becoming increasisngly complex and expensive. Governments and health care providers around the world devote a large proportion of their budgets to maintaining quality of care. During 2007 Critical Care published several papers that highlight important aspects of critical care management which can be subdivided into structure processes and outcomes including costs. Great emphasis was given to quality of life after intensive care unit stay especially the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder. Significant attention was also given to staffing level optimization of intensive care unit capacity and drug costeffectiveness particularly that of recombinant human activated protein C. Managing costs and providing high-quality care simultaneously are emerging challenges that we must understand and meet. Introduction With the development of new technologies and drugs health care is becoming increasingly complex and expensive. Governments and health care providers around the world devote a large proportion of their budgets to maintaining quality of care. Growing concern over patient care and safety has prompted initiatives such as The 5 Million Lives Campaign a voluntary initiative to protect patients from 5 million incidents of medical
