title: Understanding intensive care unit benchmarking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care and Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rua Diniz Cordeiro, 30-3° andar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22281-100, Brazil. jorgesalluh@gmail.com.|Programa de Pós-Graduação em Clínica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jorgesalluh@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jorge I F
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8164-1453
authors.initials: JIF
authors.lastname: Salluh
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care and Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rua Diniz Cordeiro, 30-3° andar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22281-100, Brazil.|Programa de Pós-Graduação em Clínica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Mark T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Keegan
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards
keywords: Discharge Policy; Nosocomial Infection Rate; Readmission Rate; Simplified Acute Physiology Score; Unplanned Extubations