Economics and outcome in the intensive care unit : Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
Economics and outcome in the intensive care unit : Current Opinion in Anesthesiology Log …

Objective: To estimate the expenses of a patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), disease wise
expenditure and area of expenses (therapeutic and diagnostic). Materials and Methods: This …

Objective: To evaluate patient outcome and the efficiency of stays in intensive care units
(ICUs). Design: Prospective study. Setting: Seven ICUs of teaching hospitals in the Paris …

Background: Costs of intensive care may be 20% of all hospital costs. Population aging
likely increases the demand for intensive care services, while health care has financial …

When writing medical assessments of intensive care units, authors usually begin with
remarks on its escalating costs. The current estimation of operating costs in intensive care …

Rationale: Published studies suggest hospital costs on Day 1 in the intensive care unit (ICU)
far exceed those of subsequent days, when costs are relatively stable. Yet, no study stratified …

Objective To assess variation in ICU length of stay between countries with varying patient-to-
nurse ratios; to compare ICU length of stay of individual countries against an international …

Purpose Access to critical care is a crucial component of healthcare systems. In low-income
countries, the burden of critical illness is substantial, but the capacity to provide care for …

Aim To estimate the nursing service costs using a top‐down micro‐costing approach and to
compare it with a bottom‐up micro‐costing approach. Background Accurate data of nursing …

Background Throughout the world, the cost of critical care medicine is increasing more than
the overall health care cost. Thus, a higher attention to improve the efficiency of the use of …