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intensive care unit

Known as: i c u, Intensive care units, intensive care unit (ICU) 
A health care facility unit that provides intensive care to critically ill patients and patients with complex medical problems who require constant… 
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Burn UnitsCoronary Care UnitsIntensive Care Units, NeonatalRespiratory Care Units
Care of intensive care unit patientDischarge summary note:Find:Pt:Intensive care unit:Doc:Cardiovascular diseaseDischarge summary note:Find:Pt:Intensive care unit:Doc:SurgeryNote:Find:Pt:Intensive care unit:Doc:Mental health

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Hospital Departments

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Risk Stratification of ICU Patients Using Topic Models Inferred from Unstructured Progress Notes
We propose a novel approach for ICU patient risk stratification by combining the learned "topic" structure of clinical concepts… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Comparison between mortality and airway colonization vs noncolonization with Candida species in critically ill adults.
Review
2009
Review
2009
Stress-induced ulcer bleeding in critically ill patients.
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Utilization of intensive care unit days in a Canadian medical-surgical intensive care unit.
OBJECTIVES To analyze the utilization of intensive care unit (ICU) days in a Canadian medical-surgical ICU and to identify ICU… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Neonatal mortality rate: is further improvement possible?
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Does modern cardiac surgery require conventional intensive care?
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Therapeutic impact of pulmonary artery catheterization in a medical/surgical ICU.
The objective of this study was to determine the following: (1) if standard clinical evaluation is sufficient to provide an… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Enteral hyperalimentation as a source of nosocomial infection.
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Predicting deaths among intensive care unit patients.
Daily APACHE II assessments to reflect the dynamic pathophysiologic processes affecting ICU patients were carried out… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
The Improving Outlook for the Small Prematurely Born Infant
A group of 32 children (20 boys, 12 girls) who weighed less than 1251g at birth and whose gestation was 31 weeks or less was… 
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