The High Cost of Acute Health Care: A Review of Escalating Costs and Limitations of Such Exposure in Intensive Care Units

APACHE—acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification system

1981 • 2,152 citations

Clinical manifestations of inspiratory muscle fatigue

1982 • 469 citations

Pronounced, Episodic Oxygen Desaturation in the Postoperative Period

1985 • 435 citations

The pattern of breathing during successful and unsuccessful trials of weaning from mechanical ventilation

1987 • 333 citations

The Cult of the Swan-Ganz Catheter

1985 • 291 citations

Medical Intensive Care: Indications, Interventions, and Outcomes

1980 • 268 citations

The use and costs of Medicare services in the last 2 years of life.

1984 • 257 citations

Rationing Intensive Care — Physician Responses to a Resource Shortage

1983 • 237 citations

Interhospital Differences in Severity of Illness

1985 • 183 citations

The Course of Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

1980 • 124 citations

Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE II) and Medicare reimbursement.

1984 • 107 citations

The Range of Intensive Care Services Today

1981 • 95 citations

Identification of Low-Risk Monitor Patients Within a Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit

1983 • 92 citations

Severity of illness within DRGs: impact on prospective payment.

1985 • 83 citations

Technology in Hospitals: Medical Advances and Their Diffusion

1979 • 81 citations

Metabolic Alkalosis and Hypoventilation in Humans

1987 • 74 citations

Lung inflation during high-frequency ventilation.

1984 • 74 citations

The hidden costs of treating severely ill patients: charges and resource consumption in an intensive care unit.

1983 • 66 citations

Evaluation of two different extubation criteria

1986 • 61 citations

Technology under Medicare Diagnosis-related Groups Prospective Payment

1985 • 61 citations

Respiratory Pattern Disturbances in Ischemic Cerebral Vascular Disease

1974 • 57 citations

Cost-containment in critical care

1986 • 54 citations

Continuous Noninvasive Monitoring of Respiratory Rate in Critically III Patients

1986 • 49 citations

Respiratory depression following epidural morphine: A clinical study

1986 • 40 citations

The use of intensive care: new research initiatives and their implications for national health policy.

1983 • 36 citations

The use of intensive care: a comparison of a university and community hospital.

1981 • 36 citations

The Use of Intensive Care: New Research Initiatives and Their Implications for National Health Policy

1983 • 22 citations

We monitor too much

1986 • 12 citations

We don’t monitor enough

1986 • 9 citations

Health Industry Manufacturers Association

1988 • 6 citations

Prospective Payment

1986 • 4 citations

The Rationale for Siting Advanced Health Technologies at Home

1985 • 3 citations

Expanding technologies and responsibilities for respiratory care medical directors and practitioners.

1986 • 1 citations

Home Health Care

1985 • 1 citations