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Rising Billing for Intermediate Intensive Care among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries between 1996 and 2010

2015; American Thoracic Society; Volume: 193; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1164/rccm.201506-1252oc

1535-4970

Michael W. Sjoding, Thomas S. Valley, Hallie C. Prescott, Hannah Wunsch, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Colin R. Cooke,

Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Intermediate care (i.e., step-down or progressive care) is an alternative to the intensive care unit (ICU) for patients with moderate severity of illness. The adoption and current use of intermediate care is unknown.