title: Improving quality in the intensive care unit setting.
abstract: Summarizing the mission of the ICU, the institution directive board and the unit director must generate a structure, proceedings criteria, management, and analysis of results capable of providing satisfactory care. Furthermore, they must take into account each organizational aspect that is necessary to offer an appropriate service for the patient. Medicine in general and intensive care in particular require that precautions be taken to avoid the patient and family feeling uncertain and fearful about the quality of the attention and care they receive.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit for Adults, Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, Gascón 450, Buenos Aires 1181, Argentina. antonio.gallesio@hospitalitaliano.org.ar
authors.forename: Antonio O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Gallesio
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ceraso
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palizas
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000379:methods; D001118:Argentina; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000145:classification; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods