Does intermediate care improve patient outcomes or reduce costs?
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Does intermediate care improve patient outcomes or reduce costs?
ICUs are an essential but expensive part of all modern hospitals. With increasingly limited healthcare funding, methods to reduce expenditure without negatively influencing patient outcomes are, therefore, of interest. One possible solution has been the development of 'intermediate care units', which provide more intensive monitoring and patient management with higher nurse:patient ratios than ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0813-0