title: On patients and patience.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bowton
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate