Methodological Challenges With Conducting Health Economic Evaluations in the Critical-Care Context
Abstract
Critical care, also known as intensive care, refers to medical treatment and monitoring provided to patients with severe, life-threatening illnesses or injuries in a specialized hospital unit, typically an intensive care unit (ICU). Emerging over half a century ago, the specialty has grown into a multidisciplinary discipline facing the challenges of increased demand driven by aging populations with increasingly complex profiles of comorbidities, workforce shortages, and rapid technological advances.1 Although ICUs represent a compelling case study, many of these same pressures extend across the hospital environment as a whole. Hospitals remain sites of both extraordinary innovation and persistent defects in value.2 These defects are breakdowns in the design and delivery of care that compromise safety, quality, and efficiency.3
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| Identifier | 110.0665/CON.2026.00637 |
| Canonical | mdoi:110.0665/CON.2026.00637 |
| Resolver URL | https://mdoi.org/110.0665/CON.2026.00637 |
| Resource URL | Open resource |
| Document URL | Open document |
| Content Type | Article |
| Authors | Stavros Petrou, PhD, William Vincent Padula, PhD, MS |
| Year | 2025 |
| Depositor | Convergence Chronicles Organisation |
| Prefix | 110.0665 |
| Registered | July 17, 2026 |
| Updated | July 17, 2026 |
| Status | Active |
| Visibility | Public |
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