Initial Experience with a Central Respiratory Monitoring Unit as a Cost-Saving Alternative to the Intensive Care Unit for Medicare Patients Who Require Long-Term Ventilator Support
- 1 February 1988
- Vol. 93 (2) , 395-397
- https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.93.2.395
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