Objectives: Cost-effectiveness analyses are increasingly used to aid decisions about
resource allocation in healthcare; this practice is slow to translate into critical care. We …

Background: Receiving care in an intensive care unit can greatly influence patients' survival
and quality of life. Such treatments can, however, be extremely resource intensive …

OBJECTIVES: Cost utility analyses compare the costs and health outcome of interventions,
with a denominator of quality-adjusted life year, a generic health utility measure combining …

Intensive care is expensive, and thus a body of research has focused on strategies to reduce
its costs. However, efforts to reduce the total cost of intensive care have met with limited …

Objectives: The number of critical care survivors is growing, but their long-term outcomes
and resource use are poorly characterized. Estimating the cost-utility of critical care is …

Clinical decision making in critical care has traditionally been based on clinical outcome
measures such as mortality and morbidity. Over the past few decades, however, increasing …

Critical care providers are under increasing pressure to be attentive to cost concerns. The
ICU consumes a significant amount of resources and, as such, is a frequently identified …

AIM: To calculate cost effectiveness of the treatment of critically ill patients in a medical
intensive care unit (ICU) of a middle income country with limited access to ICU resources …

The ICU, perhaps more than any other area in modern medicine, brings the conflicting
issues of high cost and life-saving technology into stark relief. Cost-effectiveness analysis …

Objectives: The high cost of critical care has engendered research into identifying influential
factors. However, existing studies have not considered patient vital status at ICU discharge …