Economic analysis of intensive care medicine: Rationing or rationalization?;Okonomie in der Intensivmedizin: Rationalisieren oder Rationieren?

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 703-709

  Heberer, M ^a   Kaufmann, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Economics; Intensive care; Rationalization; Rationing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; SWITZERLAND;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RATIONALIZATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032850059     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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