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: A German national prevalence study on the cost of intensive care: an evaluation from 51 intensive care units. | Available online http content 11 3 R69 Research A German national prevalence study on the cost of intensive care an evaluation from 51 intensive care units Onnen Moerer1 Enno Plock1 Uchenna Mgbor1 Alexandra Schmid2 Heinz Schneider2 Manfred Bernd Wischnewsky3 and Hilmar Burchardi1 1 Department of Anaesthesiology Emergency and Critical Care Medicine University of Gottingen Robert-Koch-StraBe 40 Gottingen 37075 Germany 2HealthEcon Ltd SteinentorstraBe 19 Basel 4051 Switzerland 3Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bremen BibliothekstraBe 1 Bremen 28359 Germany Corresponding author Onnen Moerer omoerer@ Received 19 Mar 2007 Revisions requested 24 Apr 2007 Revisions received 6 Jun 2007 Accepted 26 Jun 2007 Published 26 Jun 2007 Critical Care 2007 11 R69 doi cc5952 This article is online at http content 11 3 R69 2007 Moerer et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Intensive care unit ICU costs account for up to 20 of a hospital s costs. We aimed to analyse the individual patient-related cost of intensive care at various hospital levels and for different groups of disease. Methods Data from 51 ICUs all over Germany 15 primary care hospitals and 14 general care hospitals 10 maximal care hospitals and 12 focused care hospitals were collected in an observational cross-sectional one-day point prevalence study by two external study physicians January-October 2003 . All ICU patients length of stay 24 hours treated on the study day were included. The reason for admission severity of illness surgical diagnostic procedures resource consumption ICU hospital length of stay outcome and ICU staffing structure were documented. Results .
