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  • Title: Open heart surgery: intensive care component, clinical profile and costs over one year.
    Author: Havill JH, Moore JE, Armistead S, Ullal R.
    Journal: N Z Med J; 1992 Jan 22; 105(926):3-5. PubMed ID: 1549281.
    Abstract:
    A profile of 333 patients admitted to the intensive therapy unit, Waikato Hospital, over one year ending 30 June 1990, is presented. A close costing of a representative sample of 30 of those patients was done. The average cost of their intensive care stay was $2948 per patient. Twenty-four of the patients cost an average $2200 and the other six cost an average $5700.
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