Should Quality of Care Provided by Nighttime Intensivists Be Judged by Mortality?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA. Electronic address: narin.sriratanaviriyakul@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA.

Comment

Narin Sriratanaviriyakul et al. Chest. 2015 Aug.

. 2015 Aug;148(2):e66-e67.

doi: 10.1378/chest.15-0936.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA. Electronic address: narin.sriratanaviriyakul@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA.

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Kerlin MP, Halpern SD. Kerlin MP, et al. Chest. 2015 Aug;148(2):e67-e68. doi: 10.1378/chest.15-1097. Chest. 2015. PMID: 26238850 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Nighttime intensivist staffing, mortality, and limits on life support: a retrospective cohort study.
Kerlin MP, Harhay MO, Kahn JM, Halpern SD. Kerlin MP, et al. Chest. 2015 Apr;147(4):951-958. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-0501. Chest. 2015. PMID: 25321489 Free PMC article.