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Title
Intensive care unit admitting patterns in the Veterans Affairs health care system.
Authors
Chen, Lena M; Render, Marta; Sales, Anne; Kennedy, Edward H; Wiitala, Wyndy; Hofer, Timothy P
Abstract
Critical care resource use accounts for almost 1% of US gross domestic product and varies widely among hospitals. However, we know little about the initial decision to admit a patient to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2012, Vol 172, Issue 16, p1220