The costs of prolonged mechanical ventilation: How much is too much?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1994-

  Nierman, David M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critically ill; Mechanical ventilation; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 34547691147     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000277517.43175.FC     Document Type: Editorial

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