title: Financial implications of ventilator care.
abstract: Mechanical ventilation is in the forefront of modern technologic advances. These advances can be life saving for some, death prolonging for others. As difficult medical, ethical, and economic issues are raised in relation to life-sustaining treatments, it is important to have as complete a data base as possible concerning costs and outcomes of mechanical ventilation, so that physicians, patients, families, and society as a whole can make appropriate decisions regarding its use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bone
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data