ReviewCritical care (London, England)2012
Clinical review: International comparisons in critical care - lessons learned.
Review in Critical care (London, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06051526 (The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study
Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Risk-Based Estimate of Human Fungal Disease Burden, China.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Out-of-hours discharge from intensive care, in-hospital mortality and intensive care readmission rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Intensive care medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Referred but Declined for ICU Admission in a Resource-Limited Setting in South Africa.Critical care explorations · 2026Article
- Rehabilitation and the post-intensive care syndrome across the recovery continuum: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- A Reflection on Current Definitions of Critical Care and Critical Illness-A Narrative Review of the Literature.Nursing in critical care · 2026Review
- Hospital burden of critical illness across global settings: a point prevalence and cohort study in Malawi, Sri Lanka and Sweden.BMJ global health · 2025Observational
- The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study (ACIOS): a point prevalence study of critical illness in 22 nations in Africa.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- The case for an international severity of illness scoring system.Critical care science · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Different Intensive Care Unit Definitions Derived from the German Administrative Data Set: A Methodological, Real-World Data Analysis from 86 Helios Hospitals.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- A Train-the-Trainer Simulation Program Implemented Between Two International Partners.ATS scholar · 2024Article
- The burden of critical illness among adults in a Swedish region-a population-based point-prevalence study.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Global critical care: a call to action.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Review
- An analysis of referrals to a level 3 intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting in South Africa.The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society · 2023Article
- Development of a quality indicator set to measure and improve quality of ICU care in low- and middle-income countries.Intensive care medicine · 2022Article
- Safety management in times of crisis: Lessons learned from a nationwide status-analysis on German intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Equity of access to critical care services in Scotland: A Bayesian spatial analysis.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2021Article
- COVID 19: are South African junior doctors prepared for critical care management outside the intensive care unit?The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
Critical care medicine is a global specialty and epidemiologic research among countries provides important data on availability of critical care resources, best practices, and alternative options for delivery of care. Understanding the diversity across healthcare systems allows us to explore that rich variability and understand better the nature of delivery systems and their impact on outcomes. However, because the delivery of ICU services is complex (for example, interplay of bed availability, cultural norms and population case-mix), the diversity among countries also creates challenges when interpreting and applying data. This complexity has profound influences on reported outcomes, often obscuring true differences. Future research should emphasize determination of resource data worldwide in order to understand current practices in different countries; this will permit rational pandemic and disaster planning, allow comparisons of in-ICU processes of care, and facilitate addition of pre- and post-ICU patient data to better interpret outcomes.
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