Intensive care reimbursement practices: Results from the ICUFUND survey

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1759-1764

  Csomos, Akos ^g   Varga, Szilard ^a   Bertolini, Guido ^b   Hibbert, Clare ^c   Sandor, Janos ^d   Capuzzo, Maurizia ^e   Guidet, Bertrand R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Instituto di Riserche Farmacologiche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Health economics and organization; Health insurance funding; ICU expenditure; ICU reimbursement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NURSE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REIMBURSEMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS;

EID: 77957574814     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1911-8     Document Type: Article

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