Genetic testing: costs and access to intensive care unit care.

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Critically ill patients require significant medical care and use limited healthcare resources. Furthermore, the mortality rate from most forms of critical illness is much higher than for noncritically ill hospitalized patients. Although genetic diseases increase mortality, most are easily identified at birth and have only limited treatments and prognoses. Recently, more subtle single nucleotide polymorphisms at...

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