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The role of a medical high care unit in service provision at an urban secondary level hospital in South Africa

Abstract

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Because of the large number of critically ill patients presenting to GF Jooste Hospital each month it is essential that adequate allocation of resources be done in order to address this need. Given this high demand for critical care service provision in a seceondary level hospital, a prospective audit of service provision by the HCU at the GF Jooste Hopital was undertaken.

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Department of Medicine
Year dc:date.issued
2005

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Van Zyl-Smit, Richard Nellis
Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
  • Burch, Vanessa
  • Willcox, Paul

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3490
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3490

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Van Zyl-Smit, Richard Nellis. The role of a medical high care unit in service provision at an urban secondary level hospital in South Africa. Department of Medicine, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3490