A cost analysis was performed to verify previously reported diverging patient-related costs per ICU day across Western European countries.
May inform European ICU budgeting; leaves open standardized prospective cost verification.
A recently published study by Negrini and colleagues in 2006 suggested strongly diverging patient-related costs per ICU day between Western European countries. We tried to verify these results by performing a cost analysis in three European countries.
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