Can the terms "low resource setting" and "low-income country" be used interchangeably in the context of intensive care medicine?

Pedja Kovacevic^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska, dvanaestbeba bb, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. pedja.kovacevic@med.unibl.org.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. pedja.kovacevic@med.unibl.org.

Pedja Kovacevic. Intensive Care Med. 2023 Oct.

. 2023 Oct;49(10):1274-1275.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07203-8. Epub 2023 Aug 29.

Pedja Kovacevic^{1

2}

¹ Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska, dvanaestbeba bb, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. pedja.kovacevic@med.unibl.org.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. pedja.kovacevic@med.unibl.org.

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