Together, Intensivists and Tele- Intensivists Achieve Better Results Advanced ICU Care’s Tele-ICU service, where critical care-trained physicians and nurses remotely monitor ICU patients 24 x 7 x 365, can improve patient outcomes and drive operational efficiencies and productivity in the ICU regardless of whether the ICU staffs intensivists at the bedside. Even with intensivists at the bedside, the impact of complementing care provided bedside with additional specialized expertise in an around-the-clock, collaborative care model is readily apparent. The Leapfrog group put the importance of 24/7 care by an intensivist in the spotlight when they established their ICU Physician Staffing (IPS) standard in 2000, citing reductions in both ICU mortality and length of stay (LOS). Advanced

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