TY - JOUR AU - Pozzi, Nicola AU - D’Angelo, Gabriella AU - Gitto, Eloisa AU - Gruppo di Studio Terapia Intensiva della Prima Infanzia della SIN PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/06 TI - Why is “early childhood intensive care” an Italian association of neonatology study group? JO - Italian Journal of Pediatrics SP - 33 VL - 45 IS - 1 AB - To date, a large number of children are hospitalized inappropriately in adult intensive care units, where the minimum standards of care are not applied to young patients. It is well-known that the child is not a small adult. Recently it has been demonstrated that critically ill children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care receive higher quality of care, and have better outcomes, besides a lower mortality rate, compared to those admitted to adult intensive care units. SN - 1824-7288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-019-0626-x DO - 10.1186/s13052-019-0626-x ID - Pozzi2019 ER -