Financial implications of prolonged ventilator care under DRGs 474 and 475.
Gracey
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DR
Division of Thoracic Diseases of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905.
Nobrega
F T
FT
Naessens
J M
JM
Krishan
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