• Critical care clinics · Jul 2006

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    Intensive care medicine in Europe.

    • Georges Offenstadt, Rui Moreno, Mercedes Palomar, and Antonino Gullo.
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Hospital St. Antoine, Faculté de Médecine, Saint-Antoine, Paris F-75012, France, and Services de Cuidados Intensivos Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. georges.offenstadt@sat.aphp.fr
    • Crit Care Clin. 2006 Jul 1; 22 (3): 425-32, viii.

    AbstractHealth care systems stem from specific political, historical, cultural,and socioeconomic traditions. As a result, the organizational arrangements for health care differ considerably between Member States of the European Union. Health care in the European Union is at a crossroads between challenges and opportunities. The Member States are facing common challenges in delivering equal, efficient, and high-quality health services at affordable cost in times when the amount of care to be delivered is starting to exceed the resource base.

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