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Acute Health Division
Department of Human Services
Victoria, Australia
1.1 Service distribution and system integration
1.2 Availability of intensive care services
1.3 Best practice in intensive care
1.4 Funding models for intensive care
1.5 Data, service monitoring and planning
2.1 Impetus for the Review
2.2 Terms of Reference
2.3 Membership of the Intensive Care Advisory Group
2.4 Submissions
2.5 Data available to the Review
2.6 The 1996 Victorian ICU Survey-The "Snapshot"
Survey
2.7 Literature Analysis
2.8 The Focus of Phase 1
2.9 The Focus of Phase 2
4.1 Geographic distribution of intensive care units
4.2 Intensive care distribution and bed numbers
4.3 The role of the Office of the Coordinator of
Emergency and Critical Care Services
5.1 Factors influencing demand
5.2 ICU bed numbers: national and international
comparisons
5.4 ICU beds open
5.5 Occupancy rates
5.6 Acute inter-hospital transfers for intensive
care
5.7 Public patient use of private ICU facilities
5.8 Refusal and early discharge rates
5.9 Summary
6.1 Admission and discharge policies and principles
of bed management
6.2 The role of high dependency units (HDUs) and
step down units (SDUs)
6.3 Levels of ICU
6.4 Optimal unit size
8.1 Background
8.2 Other funding models
8.3 Principles
8.4 Options
8.5 Methodology
8.6 Capital incentive funding
Appendix A The Advisory Group
Appendix B Advertisement for call for submissions
Appendix C Submissions received
Appendix D Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
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Draft
Intensive Care Unit Guidelines - Definitions
Appendix E Abbreviations
Appendix F Best Practice Development Working Party -
Terms of Reference
