Economies of scale in British intensive care units and combined intensive care/high dependency units

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 660-664

  Jacobs, Philip ^a   Rapoport, John ^b   Edbrooke, David ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost and cost analysis; Intensive care units

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL STAFF; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NURSING; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1942436350     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2123-2     Document Type: Article

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