Goldilocks in the ICU: Too Few Beds, Too Many, or Just Right?

The article presents the authors' comments on critical care spending and ICU beds per capita in the U.S., with specific reference to the study "ICU Occupancy and Mechanical Ventilator Use in the United States," by H. Wunsch and colleagues published in this issue of the journal. The study carried out an experiment to determine hourly bed occupancy and mechanical ventilator use in the country.