A descriptive design was used, based on patient level data, to examine and compare unit costs per day for each of the ICU and non-ICU portions of a patient's hospital stay. Records from 386 patients who were treated in a general medical/surgical ICU were analyzed. Records for patients ...
{1}\) is hospital days; severity is the severity of COVID-19, a dummy variable based on the mild patient; ICUstay is a dummy variable based on not staying in the ICU during hospitalization; \({d}_{2}\) is the length of ICU stay (days); and death is a dummy variable based on...
Several methods exist to cost hospital contacts when estimating the cost effectiveness of a new intervention. However, the implications of choosing a parti
A tally of all costs incurred in the ICU was made for each case, and the average was calculated to arrive at a representative daily ICU cost for aneurysm surgery. Cost for the operating room per hour and hospital stay per day were obtained from the hospital finance department. Average costs...
Risk-adjusted outcomes included hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS), mortality, readmissions, hospital charges, and Medicare ... S Steven,McQuillen Daniel P.,N Ronald,... - 《Clinical Infectious Diseases An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of Amer...
In a retrospective matched cohort study of Medicare decedents diagnosed with cancer or other diseases, patients who received hospice care at any time had lower number of hospitalizations, shorter hospital length of stay, and lower likelihood of admissions to the Intensive Care Unit. Comorbidities and...
Figure 1 shows how the CMI error changed with varying HPA, indicating the population progressed in the hospital stay. We included observations from a day before ICU admission (−24 HPA) to simulate the flow of patients through the ICU, which would include those that have already been ...
I had a rare cancer of the blood. When it was all through my body I was sent to a hospital in the U.S. because I couldn’t be helped in Canada. My family came frequently to stay with me. It was really hard on them. I withered away. And the pain! It was terrible. I was ...
ED resources included ED visit (physician cost+visit cost), mode of transportation and change in medication. Hospital resources consisted of physician visits, length of stay, type of bed (ward/ICU), mode of transportation, change in medication and laboratory/diagnostic testing. Concomitant ...
Following admission to HOBs, 73.3% of patients were stepped down to the ward prior to discharge home. Only 7 patients required escalation to HDU or ICU. Overall, 97% of all HOBs patients were discharged home at the end of hospital stay. Between December 2021 and July 2022, a total of ...