Understanding the Russell equation and projection estimates to describe critical care costs in the USA

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1828-1830

  Halpern, Neil A ^a,b   Pastores, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; RUSSELL EQUATION; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CRITICAL CARE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941934020     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3876-0     Document Type: Article

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