title: [Evaluation of care in the intensive care unit of a general hospital].
abstract: The current concern for good management and economy in matters of health makes it mandatory for intensive care units, which are particularly expensive, to make use of criteria by which the severity of the conditions treated, the different means of treatment and the results obtained can be expressed in figures. The method based on Knaus's severity indices, previously used only in university hospitals, has been applied in the general hospital of Gap with coherent results confirming the value of these indices. Similarly Cullen's TISS scores can be used in peripheral intensive care units. For most patients the prognosis is similar to that obtained in university hospitals, and if general hospitals are weak in supervision, the therapeutic equipment available to them is the same. However, there is still no way by which the real cost of treatment can be evaluated accurately and compared with the cost of cure in other hospital units.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005602:France; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Evaluation des soins dans le service de réanimation d'un hôpital général.