Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
11-2004
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis of hospital costs incurred by patients undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery (CVS) and patients undergoing other medical procedures who received Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) in a teaching hospital. A total of 117 patients were identified through review of medical charts for the period of January 1999 to August 2002. Twenty one percent of them were identified having CVS. Eighty-eight percent of the CVS patients admitted to the ICU for CRRT died compared to 67% for non-CVS patients (p=0.047). Average actual costs of hospitalization were $47,225 for CVS patients and $51,724 for non-CVS patients. The mean length of stay (LOS) was 12.8 days for the CVS patients and 18.1 days for other patients (p=0.03). Mean LOS for patients who survived was 23.1 days whereas the average LOS for patients who died was 14.5 days (p=0.06). The differences found between patients who had CVS with CRRT as compared to non-CVS patients with CRRT in terms of mortality and length of stay raise ethical as well cost effectiveness questions of the procedure.
Recommended Citation
Belavadi T., Coustasse, A., Mains, D., Rene, A. Comparative cost analysis of CRRT in ICU/CCU patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery vs. other procedures at a Texas hospital. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Nov. 2004.
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Comments
A poster presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November, 2004 and is available online at www.apha.org
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