Critically Examining Intensive Care
1992 ◽
Vol 8
(3)
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pp. 444-456
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Keyword(s):
The Cost
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AbstractThe economic recession of the last decade brought intensive care systems under the light of cost-effectiveness analysis, making use of several instruments available in medical practice, and others adapted from for-profit enterprises. The present concept of intensive care, particularly its functional and organizational interactions with traditional specialties, is at the brink of an important revaluation. Studies of the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic actions may be grossly biased if they do not consider the complete process of care (before, during, and after treatment), analyzing even its smallest elements.
1996 ◽
Vol 3
(1)
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pp. 47-53
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Keyword(s):
1993 ◽
Vol 87
(5)
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pp. 570-575
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1990 ◽
Vol 6
(1)
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pp. 93-103
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1990 ◽
Vol 9
(4)
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pp. 447-461
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