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Cost-effectiveness of intensive care for hospitalized Covid-19 patients: experience from South Africa

2020-11-03

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<h4>Background</h4> Amidst the shortages of critical care resources in the public sector resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African Government embarked on an initiative to purchase critical bed capacity from the private sector. Within an already under-funded public health sector, it is imperative that the costs and effects of potential interventions to care are assessed and weighed against the opportu...

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Literature Corpus work: a69018ed-97b6-5ecb-b1d2-522a66fa992f
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.30.20222802

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