Cost savings attributable to reductions in intensive care unit length of stay for mechanically ventilated patients

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1226-1233

  Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b,c   Rubenfeld, Gordon D ^d   Rohrbach, Jeffery ^e   Fuchs, Barry D ^a  

^a Allergy and Critical Care

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Costs; Critical care; Intensive care; Mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649110675     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31817d9342     Document Type: Article

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