Trends in critical care beds and use among population groups and medicare and medicaid beneficiaries in the United States: 2000-2010

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1490-1499

  Halpern, Neil A ^a   Goldman, Debra A ^a   Tan, Kay See ^a   Pastores, Stephen M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; gross domestic product; hospital costs; intensive care, beds; Medicaid; Medicare; national health expenditures; occupancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE BED; DAY HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY CARE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; POPULATION; POPULATION GROUP; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BED OCCUPANCY; CRITICAL CARE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965036794     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001722     Document Type: Article

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