Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) or home mechanical ventilation (HMV) can easily enhance survival time in chronic respiratory failure. A national quality register could be an aid to identifying risk markers and improving therapy for respiratory failure. The objective of this report is
The aim of this thesis was to examine the cost-effectiveness of specific advanced home care and home rehabilitation interventions and to improve economic evaluation methods when applied to advanced home care. This included a comparison of two alternative ways of administering oxygen
The last decades less invasive monitoring and analytical tools have been developed for the evaluation of myocardial mechanics in clinical praxis. In critical care, these are longed-for complements to pulmonary artery catheter monitoring, additionally offering previously inaccessible information. This work is aimed,