"Intensive Care Units" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.
| Descriptor ID |
D007362
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.388.493
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| Concept/Terms |
Intensive Care Units- Intensive Care Units
- Care Unit, Intensive
- Care Units, Intensive
- Intensive Care Unit
- Unit, Intensive Care
- Units, Intensive Care
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Intensive Care Units" by people in this website by year, and whether "Intensive Care Units" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2009 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2011 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2012 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2013 | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| 2014 | 14 | 10 | 24 |
| 2015 | 13 | 10 | 23 |
| 2016 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| 2020 | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| 2021 | 4 | 21 | 25 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16 | 21 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Intensive Care Units" by people in Profiles.
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Prevalence and Impact of Traumatic Life Events among Black and White Family Members of Intensive Care Unit Patients. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Nov; 22(11):1720-1728.
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Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Acquisition. Ann Intern Med. 2025 Nov; 178(11):1529-1538.
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Infections and mortality in ICU patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Nephrol. 2025 Jul 01; 26(1):321.
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Impact of fluid removal rate on patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury. J Crit Care. 2025 Oct; 89:155161.
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Triaging acute chest syndrome clinical decision-making using bedside SaO2/FiO2 ratio. Blood Adv. 2025 Jun 24; 9(12):2970-2979.
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Comparison of Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Clinical Deterioration in Ward Patients: Observational Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2025 06 11; 27:e75340.
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Fecal metabolite profiling identifies critically ill patients with increased 30-day mortality. Sci Adv. 2025 Jun 06; 11(23):eadt1466.
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Clinical Description and Acute Outcomes of Cryptogenic Encephalitis in the Intensive Care Unit. Neurocrit Care. 2025 Oct; 43(2):636-644.
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Age and Saving Lives in Crisis Standards of Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study of Triage Score Prognostic Accuracy. Crit Care Explor. 2025 May 01; 7(5):e1256.
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Multicenter Development and Prospective Validation of eCARTv5: A Gradient-Boosted Machine-Learning Early Warning Score. Crit Care Explor. 2025 Apr 01; 7(4):e1232.