Intensive Care Medicine

, Volume 42, Issue 10, pp 1641–1642 | Cite as

Chronic healthcare expenditure in survivors of sepsis in the intensive care unit

  • Maria E. Koster-Brouwer
  • Kirsten van de Groep
  • Wietze Pasma
  • Hugo M. Smeets
  • Arjen J. C. Slooter
  • Dylan W. de Lange
  • Diederik van Dijk
  • Tom van der Poll
  • Marc J. M. Bonten
  • Olaf L. Cremer
  • On behalf of the MARS Consortium
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Keywords

Intensive Care Unit Admission Healthcare Utilization Electronic Supplementary Material Table Monthly Expenditure Sepsis Survivor 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

We thank the committee of the Achmea Health Database for the use of the data for this project. We are also grateful to ZorgTTP (Houten, the Netherlands) for their cooperation in the pseudonymization of the data.

Compliance with ethical standards

Ethical approval

Ethical approval for the study was provided by the Medical Ethics Committees of participating centers, including a waiver for informed consent (IRB numbers 14-095/C, 10-056, 10-006).

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to the subject matter.

Supplementary material

134_2016_4442_MOESM1_ESM.pdf (481 kb)
Containing an extended methods and results section, accompanied by tables and figures. (PDF 482 kb)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Maria E. Koster-Brouwer
    • 1
    • 2
  • Kirsten van de Groep
    • 1
    • 2
  • Wietze Pasma
    • 2
  • Hugo M. Smeets
    • 1
  • Arjen J. C. Slooter
    • 2
  • Dylan W. de Lange
    • 2
  • Diederik van Dijk
    • 2
  • Tom van der Poll
    • 3
    • 4
  • Marc J. M. Bonten
    • 1
    • 5
  • Olaf L. Cremer
    • 2
  • On behalf of the MARS Consortium
  1. 1.Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary CareUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
  2. 2.Department of Intensive Care MedicineUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
  3. 3.Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical CenterUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
  4. 4.Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center University of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
  5. 5.Department of Medical MicrobiologyUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands

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