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A First Glimpse at the Early Origins of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: example, HCRIS does not include a Neuroscience ICU category.The Dartmouth Atlas regions also do not account for political and legislative geographic boundaries, nor were they developed to address critical illness or "regionalization" (15) of ICU care.Other confounding factors such as direct hospital competition, health system integration, and use of ICU telemedicine, which may affect ICU bed supply and movement of patients within defined areas, could also not be measured in their data.Notwithstanding these limitations, the present study by Wallace and colleagues (12) highlights the complexity of the critical care bed supply in the United States and offers valuable insights into the changes in critical care beds that occur at the regional level and their relationship to the regional populations.However, future studies investigating hospital, ICU, and insurer characteristics at the national and regional levels are still needed to advance our understanding of the U.S. critical care enterprise.

Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201412-2187ed

Authors: Oliver Eickelberg, Gary M. Hunninghake

Institutions: Helmholtz Munich, German Center for Lung Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute