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Costs of adverse events in intensive care units
Kaushal R, Bates DW, Franz C, Soukup JR, Rothschild JM. Costs of adverse events in intensive care units. Critical Care Medicine. Nov 2007;35(11):2479-2483.

Iatrogenic injuries are very common in critically ill adults. However, the financial implications of these events are incompletely understood. This article describes a study to determine the costs of adverse events in patients in the medical intensive care unit and in the cardiac intensive care unit.



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