Recommendations on the structure, personal, and organization of intensive care units.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intensive care units (ICU) are central facilities of medical care in hospitals world-wide and pose a significant financial burden on the health care system.

Objectives

To provide guidance and recommendations for the requirements of (infra)structure, personal, and organization of intensive care units.

Design and setting

Development of recommendations based on a systematic literature search and a formal consensus process from a group of multidisciplinary and multiprofessional specialists from the German Interdisciplinary Association of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI). The grading of the recommendation follows the report from an American College of Chest Physicians Task Force.

Results

The recommendations cover the fields of a 3-staged level

SUBMITTER: Waydhas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325721 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature