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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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Autor principal: Combes, Alain
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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