Intensive care is expensive, and thus a body of research has focused on strategies to reduce its costs. However, efforts to reduce the total cost of intensive care have met with limited success, partly because of the challenges of calculating how much a day in the ICU actually costs. We discuss these challenges and introduce the concept of total cost savings as an outcome of critical care trials, assuming statistically negative effects on mortality and quality of life.
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Wilcox, M., & Rubenfeld, G. D. (2015, June 11). Is critical care ready for an economic surrogate endpoint? Critical Care. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0947-0
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