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On the modern hospital, the vast majority of patients will require ICU admission. The cost of caring patients in the ICU in the USA is expected to increase to 6% of the gross national product by 2019. There are ways to provide ICU care to the growing number of patients; of all extending ICU care at home seems to be the best solution. Intensive home healthcare is a multidisciplinary effort among hospitals, physicians, nurses, and pharmaceutical and insurance companies. This chapter is an attempt to explore this revolutionary field.
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Goyal, P., Latifi, R. (2019). Home Healthcare Services as an Extension of Intensive Care Unit. In: Latifi, R. (eds) The Modern Hospital. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01394-3_34
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