Resp Care
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Today we are faced with an ever-expanding array of technologies that allow monitoring to be accomplished more accurately and more easily than before. Each institution's needs differ--yet, the methods for determining appropriate utilization are similar. A rational method of utilization includes a criteria-based process for deciding who will be monitored and when. ⋯ However, they do carry the risk of increasing the overall cost of health care and of distracting us from personally assessing our patients. The existence of an expensive device is not reason enough to employ it. If it were, I would have a difficult time responding to my wife's frequent question of, "If they can send one man to the moon, why can't they send them all?"