PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sivak, Edward D.
AU  - Perez-Trepichio, Alejandro
TI  - Quality assessment in the medical intensive care unit: evolution of a data model
DP  - 1990 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 273--279
VI  - 57
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/57/3/273.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/57/3/273.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1990 May 01; 57
AB  - Quality assessment and assurance in the intensive care unit require systematic monitoring and evaluation of patient care and its outcome. For analysis of these activities, data must be organized to reflect changes in such factors as patient types, ages, and lengths of stay. A model was developed to group data from the Cleveland Clinic Hospital medical intensive care unit into structural, process, and outcome categories. Development and application of the model are described.