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- Title
Understanding the Russell equation and projection estimates to describe critical care costs in the USA.
- Authors
Halpern, Neil; Pastores, Stephen; Halpern, Neil A; Pastores, Stephen M
- Abstract
The article discusses the Russell equation and projection estimates that are used to determine the critical care costs in the U.S. Also examined are the cost of the delivery of critical care medicine (CCM) services in the country in 2005, as well as the national administrative databases used to monitor hospital use and cost data, namely, the federal Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) and the proprietary Hospital Statistics data set of the American Hospital Association (AHA).
- Subjects
CRITICAL care medicine; MEDICAL care costs; HOSPITAL utilization; AMERICAN Hospital Association; DATABASES
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2015, Vol 41, Issue 10, p1828
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-015-3876-0