title: Showing where the money goes. Cost-effective care in ICU.
abstract: As resource management is implemented around the country, nurses are being asked to become more cost conscious, while maintaining standards of patient care. Staff in one ICU were introduced to the effects of their care on the unit budget.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ballard
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*