Mechanical ventilation in medical departments: a necessary evil, or a blessing in bad disguise?
Abstract In most countries there is a mismatch between demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ICU bed availability. Because of a policy of low ICU-bed reimbursement this mismatch is much more profound in Israel, which arguably has the lowest number of ICU beds/1000 population of OECD countrie...
Main Authors: | Yuval Schwartz, Amir Jarjoui, Amos M. Yinnon |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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Series: | Israel Journal of Health Policy Research |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13584-019-0322-8 |
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