Ongoing Health Care Expenditure in Survivors of Sepsis in The Intensive Care Unit
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Methods Data were derived from a prospective cohort study in two tertiary ICUs in the Netherlands in 2011 and 2012. Patients were included if they had survived one year following a sepsis episode in the ICU. Health care consumption and reimbursed costs were derived from a database of a Dutch health insurance company. The medical ethics committee of the UMC Utrecht approved the study and waived the need for informed consent (IRB-number 14-095).
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