Fiona Lalango, Fiona Kabagenyi, Amina Seguya, Richard Byaruhanga, Jeff Otiti
A descriptive study on diagnostic timelines, and factors influencing delayed diagnosis among adult head and neck cancer patients at Uganda cancer institute
World journal of surgical oncology
last national estimates us intensive care unit icu physician staffing 25 years old lack information interprofessional teams us adult icus currently staffed conducted crosssectional survey 0504202202022023 adult icu clinicians targeting nursephysician leadership contacted using 2020 american hospital association aha database information secondarily professional organizations survey included questions interprofessional icu staffing availability roles steadystate precovid19 linked survey data hospital data aha database create weighted national estimates extrapolating icu staffing data nonrespondent hospitals based hospital characteristics cohort consisted 596 adult icus response ratesaha contacts 21 professional organizations unknown geographic diversity size variability median interquartile range 20 1225 beds cared mixed populations 414 695 yet medical 55 92 surgical 70 117 specialty 57 96 icus well represented 554 930 intensivists available intensivists covering patients 756 onsite 24 hoursday half 533 weekdays 518 weekends icus 698 physiciansintraining 777 nurse practitionersphysician assistants mechanically ventilated patients nursepatient ratios 12 896 clinical pharmacists available 926 respiratory therapists 988 estimated 851 95 confidence interval 857 845 hospitals nationally icus intensivists 516 506 525 physiciansintraining 721 713 729 nurse practitionersphysician assistants 985 984 987 respiratory therapists 869 864 874 clinical pharmacists mechanically ventilated patients 864 858 870 used 12 nursespatients intensivist presence adult us icus greatly increased 25 years intensivists respiratory therapists clinical pharmacists commonly available nurse usually provides care two mechanically ventilated patients however team composition workload vary