Determining the economic cost of ICU treatment: a prospective "micro-costing" study.
Affiliation
Department of Intensive Care, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, The National Children's Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland. annemmclaughlin@gmail.comIssue Date
2009-12MeSH
AgedCosts and Cost Analysis
Critical Illness
Female
Great Britain
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
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Determining the economic cost of ICU treatment: a prospective "micro-costing" study. 2009, 35 (12):2135-40 Intensive Care MedJournal
Intensive care medicineDOI
10.1007/s00134-009-1622-1PubMed ID
19756509Abstract
To prospectively assess the cost of patients in an adult intensive care unit (ICU) using bottom-up costing methodology and evaluate the usefulness of "severity of illness" scores in estimating ICU cost.Item Type
ArticleLanguage
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1432-1238ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00134-009-1622-1