Critical care medicine use and cost among Medicare beneficiaries 1995-2000: Major discrepancies between two United States federal Medicare databases

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 692-699

  Halpern, Neil A ^a   Pastores, Stephen M ^a   Thaler, Howard T ^a   Greenstein, Robert J ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Critical care medicine; Databases; Days; Federal; Health care; Health Care Information System; Hospital Cost Report Information System; Intensive care medicine; Intensive care unit; Medicare; Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File; Revenue codes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY CARE UNITS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRITICAL CARE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33947180115     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000257255.57899.5D     Document Type: Article

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