title: Patient material in multidisciplinary intensive care units.
abstract: The patient material in the multidisciplinary intensive care unit of Uppsala University Hospital is compared with the material from a recently performed nation-wide study on different intensive care units. A registration chart to record intensive care work and a time and motion study of nursing personnel are presented. It is concluded that such records are necessary to allow valid comparisons of the need for intensive care beds and personnel in hospitals of different sizes and degrees of specialization.
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007902:Length of Stay; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013548:Sweden; D013996:Time and Motion Studies