The importance of technology for achieving superior outcomes from intensive care

A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study

1993 • 6,337 citations

A New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) Based on a European/North American Multicenter Study

1993 • 5,263 citations

Mortality Probability Models (MPM II) Based on an International Cohort of Intensive Care Unit Patients

1993 • 984 citations

The Performance of Intensive Care Units: Does Good Management Make a Difference?

1994 • 755 citations

Variations in Mortality and Length of Stay in Intensive Care Units

1993 • 551 citations

Coronary artery bypass surgery: the relationship between inhospital mortality rate and surgical volume after controlling for clinical risk factors.

1991 • 375 citations

Does Quality Influence Choice of Hospital?

1990 • 277 citations

Improving intensive care

1993 • 268 citations

Explaining variations in hospital death rates. Randomness, severity of illness, quality of care

1990 • 224 citations

A method for assessing the clinical performance and cost-effectiveness of intensive care units

1994 • 198 citations

Accurate Prediction of the Outcome of Pediatric Intensive Care

1987 • 181 citations

The Relation Between Hospital Experience and In-Hospital Mortality for Patients With AIDS-Related PCP

1989 • 143 citations

Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates

1990 • 134 citations

Volume-Outcome Relationships and Inhospital Mortality: The Effect of Changes in Volume Over Time

1992 • 128 citations

Application of the APACHE III prognostic system in Brazilian intensive care units: A prospective multicenter study

1996 • 106 citations

Efficiency of Intensive Care

1987 • 83 citations

Physiological scoring systems and audit

1993 • 62 citations

Rationing critical care -- what happens to patients who are not admitted?

1994 • 56 citations

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SERVICES AND PERSONNEL FOR DELIVERY OF CARE IN A CRITICAL CARE SETTING

1988 • 28 citations

Medical Technology and Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

1986 • 27 citations

NIH Consensus Development Conference on Critical Care Medicine

1983 • 27 citations

Effects of insertion depth and use of the sidearm of the introducer sheath of pulmonary artery catheters in cardiac output measurement

1994 • 8 citations

What technologies for health care in developing countries?

1992 • 7 citations