ReviewCritical care (London, England)2009
Pro/con debate: do the benefits of regionalized critical care delivery outweigh the risks of interfacility patient transport?
Review in Critical care (London, England), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Predictors of Urgent Dialysis Following Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department in Patients Treated With Maintenance Hemodialysis.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2023Article
- Implications of Regionalizing Care in the Developing World: Impact of Distance to Referral Center on Compliance to Biopsy Recommendations in a Brazilian Prostate Cancer Screening Cohort.Prostate cancer · 2021Article
- Impact of Patient-Level Characteristics on In-hospital Mortality After Interhospital Transfer to Medicine Services: an Observational Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Observational
- How much centralization of critical care services in the era of telemedicine?Critical care (London, England) · 2019Article
- Hospital Mechanical Ventilation Volume and Patient Outcomes: Too Much of a Good Thing?Critical care medicine · 2019Article
- Impact of Telemedicine Monitoring of Community ICUs on Interhospital Transfers.Critical care medicine · 2017Article
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- Volume-Mortality Relationships during Hospitalization with Severe Sepsis Exist Only at Low Case Volumes.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2015Article
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- When place and time matter: How to conduct safe inter-hospital transfer of patients.Saudi journal of anaesthesia · 2014Article
- The availability, spatial accessibility, service utilisation and retrieval cost of paediatric intensive care services for children in rural, regional and remote Queensland: study protocol.BMC health services research · 2013Article
- Impact of interhospital transfer on complications and outcome after intracranial hemorrhage.Neurocritical care · 2012Article
- International comparisons of intensive care: informing outcomes and improving standards.Current opinion in critical care · 2012Review
- The Italian ECMO network experience during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic: preparation for severe respiratory emergency outbreaks.Intensive care medicine · 2011Article
- Ethical considerations for conducting a randomized controlled trial in transport.Air medical journalArticle
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Abstract
You are providing input in planning for critical care services to a large regional health authority. You are considering concentrating some critical care services into high-volume regional centres of excellence, as has been done in other fields of medicine. In your region, this would require several centres with differing levels of expertise that are geographically separated. Given there are inherent risks and time delays associated with interfacility patient transport, you debate whether these potential risks outweigh the benefits of regional centres of excellence.
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