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Understanding the Russell equation and projection estimates to describe critical care costs in the USA

Authors: Neil A. Halpern, Stephen M. Pastores

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2015

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The delivery of critical care medicine (CCM) services in the USA is expensive [1, 2], exceeding US$80 billion in 2005 [2]. However, despite the CCM cost magnitude, CCM costs are never reported by any US governmental agency; instead, they are calculated periodically, since the 1980s, by various groups of investigators [1‐5]. An understanding of how CCM costs are determined in the USA is important to help gauge their accuracy, consistency, usefulness, and comparability to CCM costing in other countries. …

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Title: Understanding the Russell equation and projection estimates to describe critical care costs in the USA
Authors: Neil A. Halpern
Stephen M. Pastores
Publication date: 01-10-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3876-0

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