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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
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Special Issue 1/2004
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Excerpt
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. …