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World J Crit Care Med. May 4, 2016; 5(2): 150-164
Published online May 4, 2016. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i2.150
Published online May 4, 2016. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i2.150
Cost effectiveness of intensive care in a low resource setting: A prospective cohort of medical critically ill patients
Hajrunisa Cubro, Guillaume Thiery, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Sarajevo University Clinical Center, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rabija Somun-Kapetanovic, Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty of Economics, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Talmor, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Ognjen Gajic, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Author contributions: Cubro H, Somun-Kapetanovic R and Thiery G collected and analyzed the data; Cubro H, Talmor D and Gajic O designed the work; Cubro H, Talmor D and Gajic O interpreted the results; Cubro H wrote the first draft; Cubro H, Thiery G, Talmor D and Gajic O revised the manuscript for important intellectual content and gave approval for publication.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional review board of Sarajevo University Clinical Center and Ehics commitee of the Sarajevo University Faculty of Medicine.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided written informed consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this study declare that they have no conflict of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: There is no additional data.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Ognjen Gajic, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States. gajic.ognjen@mayo.edu
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Received: April 9, 2015
Peer-review started: April 9, 2015
First decision: September 14, 2015
Revised: October 20, 2015
Accepted: November 13, 2015
Article in press: November 17, 2015
Published online: May 4, 2016
Peer-review started: April 9, 2015
First decision: September 14, 2015
Revised: October 20, 2015
Accepted: November 13, 2015
Article in press: November 17, 2015
Published online: May 4, 2016
Core Tip
Core tip: The first of a kind prospective cost effectiveness study in the intensive care unit in low resource settings. The study provides important evidence that critical care is cost effective medical intervention that favorably compares with most standard medical treatments but is unfortunately grossly underdeveloped in low resource settings.