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01-02-2004 | Poster presentation

Five-year survival, quality of life, and individual costs of 303 consecutive medical intensive care patients

Authors: J Graf, J Wagner, C Graf, K Koch, P Hanrath, U Janssens

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2004

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Cost considerations may influence therapeutic reasoning and decisions in the intensive care unit (ICU). To date only very few data illuminating the association of costs and consequences (i.e. outcomes) of critical care services are available. In this study, the long-term outcome, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and ICU and hospital costs of medical ICU patients were assessed. …
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Title
Five-year survival, quality of life, and individual costs of 303 consecutive medical intensive care patients
Authors
J Graf
J Wagner
C Graf
K Koch
P Hanrath
U Janssens
Publication date
01-02-2004
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2004
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2811

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