Economic implications of nighttime attending intensivist coverage in a medical intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1257-1262

  Banerjee, Ritesh ^a   Naessens, James M ^a   Seferian, Edward G ^c   Gajic, Ognjen ^b   Moriarty, James P ^a   Johnson, Matthew G ^a   Meltzer, David O ^d  

^a Department of Health Sciences Research ^*  (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology; Age; and Chronic Health Evaluation; costs and cost analysis; critical care; economics; health care costs; intensive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MODEL; NIGHT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

EID: 79957646225     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31820ee1df     Document Type: Article

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