Organizational Factors Influencing the Performance of An Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Some deficiencies linked to the work organization in the medical care process have an impact on overall survival, that of the critical patient and on several very serious conditions such as sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome, among other important indicators of intensive care units. This work aims to reflect and promote the debate on the organizational factors that determine the quality of care in intensive care units, because they are usually dismissed despite the fissures that these factors produce in it are modifiable. Teamwork, discipline, leadership, research work, humanism, teaching, multidisciplinary work, professional improvement and administrative support are fundamental factors for a health work group to achieve good performance. Despite the great impact that, in general, technology and the degree of socioeconomic development exert in favor of health, there are many aspects not linked to them that are decisive to achieve good quality indicators.