ReviewMedizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin2018
Intermediate care units : Recommendations on facilities and structure.
Review in Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Decreasing admissions in older and increasing mortality in younger patients: a nationwide observational study of all German ICU cases 2011-2022.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Observational
- Guidelines for the construction and management of critical care medicine in China (2025 Edition).Journal of intensive medicine · 2026Article
- Intensive care patients eligible for intermediate care unit-level care: a single-centre prospective cohort study in Belgium.Critical care science · 2026Article
- Intermediate Care Units in Europe and Italy: A Review of Structure, Outcomes, and Policy Implications for Internal Medicine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Temporal Decline in Intravascular Albumin Mass and Its Association with Fluid Balance and Mortality in Sepsis: A Prospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- In-hospital mortality of patients admitted to the intermediate care unit in hospitals with and without an intensive care unit: a nationwide inpatient database study.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- The Fenice project to evaluate and improve the quality of healthcare in high-dependency care units: results after the first year.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Observational
- 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
- Utility of Intermediate Care Units: A Systematic Review Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- [Laboratory and calorimetric monitoring of medical nutrition therapy in intensive and intermediate care units : Second position paper of the Section Metabolism and Nutrition of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2023Review
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- Where internal medical patients receive intensive interventions: results from a tertiary-care hospital in Israel.Israel journal of health policy research · 2023Observational
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- Intermediate care in caring for dementia, the point of view of general practitioners: A key informant survey across Europe.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Comparison of qSOFA score, SOFA score, and SIRS criteria for the prediction of infection and mortality among surgical intermediate and intensive care patients.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2020Observational
- SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy: ethical and organizational considerations.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2020Article
- Mechanical ventilation in medical departments: a necessary evil, or a blessing in bad disguise?Israel journal of health policy research · 2019Article
- [Health services research in intensive care medicine in Germany : Status quo and future challenges exemplified by acute pulmonary failure].Der Anaesthesist · 2019Review
- Occurrence and predictors of delirium in critically ill older patients: a prospective cohort study.Porto biomedical journalArticle
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Abstract
A growing number of patients with increasingly complex or specialized diseases are being treated in hospitals worldwide. The treatment requirements of some of these patients are exceeding the capacity of standard nursing units. However, the severity of these diseases or the treatment requirements for these specific clinical pictures do not always justify admission to an intensive care unit. For this reason, an increasing number of special units (intermediate care units) are being set up to offer highly specialized treatment and close monitoring, in order to fulfil an intermediate role between the standard care unit and the intensive care unit. The recommendations of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) on the personnel, capacity, equipment and structure of these units are intended to provide the framework for the setting up and operation of intermediate care units in collaboration with experts on both an evidence-based and an expert-based basis (where scientific evidence is not available). Where only minimal or indirect evidence is available, patient safety is paramount in the formulation of the recommendation.
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