Health care costs, long-term survival, and quality of life following intensive care unit admission after cardiac arrest

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Graf, Jürgen ^a   Mühlhoff, Cecile ^b   Doig, Gordon S ^c   Reinartz, Sebastian ^d   Bode, Kirsten ^d   Dujardin, Robert ^e   Koch, Karl Christian ^b   Roeb, Elke ^f   Janssens, Uwe ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL ESCHWEILER   (Germany)

^e Malteser Krankenhaus St Elisabeth   (Germany)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SHORT FORM 36; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 48049090061     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6963     Document Type: Article

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