Open AccessCritical Care Documentation for the Dying Trauma Patient: Are We Recognizing Our Own Efforts?
Author(s) -
Samuel J. Zolin,
Jasmin Bhangu,
Brian T. Young,
Sarah E Posillico,
Husayn A Ladhani,
Jeffrey A. Claridge,
Vanessa P. Ho
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the american surgeon/american surgeon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1555-9823
pISSN - 0003-1348
DOI - 10.1177/0003134820972989
Subject(s) - medicine , documentation , intensive care unit , palliative care , logistic regression , end of life care , emergency medicine , intensive care , cause of death , intensive care medicine , disease , nursing , computer science , programming language
Missed documentation for critical care time (CCT) for dying patients may represent a missed opportunity for physicians to account for intensive care unit (ICU) services, including end-of-life care. We hypothesized that CCT would be poorly documented for dying trauma patients.