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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Changes in hospital costs after introducing an intermediate care unit: a comparative observational study. | Available online http ccforum.eom content 1 2 3 R68 Open Access Research Changes in hospital costs after introducing an intermediate care unit a comparative observational study Barbara CJ Solberg1 Carmen D Dirksen2 Fred HM Nieman2 Godefridus van Merode3 Martijn Poeze4 and Graham Ramsay4 5 1Staff Department of Research Care and Education Maastricht University Hospital P. Debyelaan 25 6229 HX Maastricht The Netherlands 2Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment KEMTA P. Debyelaan 25 6229 HX Maastricht University Hospital Maastricht The Netherlands 3Department of Health Organisation Policy and Economics BEOZ University of Maastricht P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands 4Department of Surgery P. Debyelaan 25 6229 HX Maastricht University Hospital Maastricht The Netherlands 5Current address West Hertfordshire NHS Trust Hillfield Road Hemel Hempstead HP2 4AD UK Corresponding author Martijn Poeze m.poeze@ah.unimaas.nl Received 28 Sep 2007 Revisions requested 2 Nov 2007 Revisions received 7 Apr 2008 Accepted 15 May 2008 Published 15 May 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R68 doi 10.1186 cc6903 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 12 3 R68 2008 Solberg et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The high cost of critical care resources has resulted in strategies to reduce the costs of ruling out low-risk patients by developing intermediate care units IMCs . The aim of this study was to compare changes in total hospital costs for intensive care patients before and after the introduction of an IMC at the University Hospital Maastricht. Methods The design was a comparative longitudinal study. The setting was a university hospital with a mixed intensive care unit ICU an IMC
