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The long and difficult road to better evaluation of outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation: not yet a highway to heaven
The study conducted by Cox and coworkers included in this issue of Critical Care demonstrates that prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV; defined as MV for 21 days or longer) is more specific than Diagnosis Related Group 541/542 as a marker of resource utilization, hospital costs and potentially inef...
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17338833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc5701 |