Economics of Critical Care Medicine, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

Description

Topics include: Why Economics Matters to Critical Care Clinicians, Overview of Health Economics: Basics Concept for Clinicians;Health Economic Methods; Costs of Critical Care Medicine; Economic Aspects of Sepsis and Severe Infections; Economic Aspects of Renal Failure and Acute Kidney Injury; Economic Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease; Economics of Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Failure and Comparative Effective Research and Health Care Reform.

Author Information

By Donald Chalfin, MD, MS, FCCM, Albert Einstein School of Medicine and John A Rizzo, PhD, MacWindows, San Francisco, California