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  Why estimate the length of stay at an ICU? In a scenario where there is increasing pressure to increase efficiency in the hospital sector, safely reducing hospitalization times, especially for ICU patients, is a strategy that has been widely

  During the first year, the ICU director should take a snapshot of the ICU situation and invest time and resources to acquire good and real data that will drive priorities of care and management. After that, implementation of basic protocols

During the years 2020 and 2021, the SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) pandemic generated an unprecedented number of patients with severe pneumonia, requiring hospitalization and intensive care. In these months we observed the saturation and collapse of health systems and the high

Recent progress in the electronic medical records (EMR) for ICU and cloud-based analyses allows us to apply the Donabedian principles, created 40 years ago, in near real-time. Basically, there are three types of indicators based on the Donabedian Categorization (Donabedian

Recent studies demonstrate the potential of using data to implement measures aimed at reducing healthcare costs and, at the same time, improving the quality of care. The best risk assessment and clinical profile of ICU patients through the management of

  Benchmarking is a management strategy that consists of the process of searching and comparing the best practices evidenced in the real world. Epimed Solutions, a leading company in the clinical information segment, allows an analysis to measure the quality and

The ICU is a highly technological environment where each patient data generates thousands of data-points per day. However, most of this data is usually wasted thus missing the opportunity of using this data to understand patient profile and improve outcomes. For