Severity of Illness and Treatment Thresholds: Managed-Care Strategies in Sleep Medicine

Severity of illness and outcome of treat

Severity of illness and outcome of treatment in alcoholic patients in the intensive care unit

✍ N.-H. Jensen; L. Dragsted; J. K. Christensen; J. C. Jørgensen; J. Qvist 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 284 KB

To study whether critically ill alcoholics were more sick and had a worse outcome than other patients treated in the intensive care unit, data were collected during the initial 24 h on 216 consecutive patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Twentysix patients (12%) met the criteria for alcohol