To determine the outcome of patients who are denied ICU admission because of limited
resources, we conducted a prospective, nonintervention, cohort survey in a 710-adult bed …

Objective: To evaluate from a hospital's perspective the costs and savings, over a 1-yr
period, of implementing The Leapfrog Group's Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing (IPS) …

Purpose The relationship between the number of patients admitted to an intensive care unit
(ICU) volume and mortality is currently the subject of debate. After implementation of a …

Objective: To evaluate from a hospital's perspective the costs and savings, over a 1-yr
period, of implementing The Leapfrog Group's Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing (IPS) …

Objectives: To determine whether patients admitted to an ICU during times of strain, when
compared with its own norm (ie accommodating a greater number of patients, higher acuity …

In this issue, Levy and colleagues explore the effects of ICU physician staffing models on
mortality. Their findings not only refute the claim that intensivist-staffed ICUs improve …

Objectives: A volume-outcome relationship in ICU patients has been suggested in recent
studies. However, it is unclear whether the ICU-to-hospital bed ratio affects the volume …

BACKGROUND: A shortage of critical care specialists or intensivists, coupled with
expanding United States critical care needs, mandates identification of alternate qualified …

Objectives: The high cost of critical care has engendered research into identifying influential
factors. However, existing studies have not considered patient vital status at ICU discharge …

Despite the manpower shortage to care for the critically ill, the number of ICU beds has been
rising for the last 2 decades. The ICU intensivist physician staffing model is still in flux in this …