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Quality indicators function as essential tools to measure medical care, provide warning signs, and identify departures from standard care in critically ill patients.
Quality indicators serve as tools to measure medical care, identify problems, and track departures from standard care in critically ill patients.
May inform ICU quality audits; leaves open standardization and outcome linkage across settings.
Quality indicators are working tools that permit measurement of the medical care provided. They can provide warning signs and identify problems or improvements and departures from standard care.
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Martin et al. (2006) studied this question. Quality indicators function as essential tools to measure medical care, provide warning signs, and identify departures from standard care in critically ill patients.
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