eMJA     The Medical Journal of Australia

Home | Issues | eMJA shop | Classifieds | Contact | More... | Topics | Search | Login | Buy full access   

Letters

Interventions to circumvent intensive care access block: a retrospective 2-year study across metropolitan Melbourne

Helen E Stark, Chris N Maxwell and Robert W Gibberd
MJA 2009 ; 191 (5): 292

To the Editor: Duke and colleagues recently reported the excess mortality and extra bed-days caused by intensive care access block in metropolitan Melbourne.1 Access block is an important patient safety issue, and we report here additional data that support their results.

Home | Issues | eMJA shop | Terms of use | Classifieds | More... | Contact | Topics | Search

The Medical Journal of Australia    eMJA  

©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au PRINT ISSN: 0025-729X ONLINE ISSN: 1326-5377