No longer the "expensive scare unit"?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1408-1409

  Shorr, Andrew F ^a   Linde Zwirble, Walter T ^b   Angus, Derek C ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Health Process Management LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942527027     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000128586.33271.1F     Document Type: Editorial

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