Cost of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medically ill patients.
Purpose. The results of a study to estimate the economic costs of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized nonsurgical patients during initial admissions and subsequent to hospital discharge are presented. Methods. Using a database linking admission records from more than 150 U.S. hospitals to h...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Vol. 70; no. 19; pp. 1681 - 1688 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Oxford University Press / USA
10/1/2013
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104231861&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104231861 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10792082 1X3 jtl: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy issn: 10792082 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 10/1/2013 vid: 70 iid: 19 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 104231861 90355096 10.2146/ajhp130099 NLM24048605 104231861 ppf: 1681 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Cost of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medically ill patients. aug: au: Pendergraft, Trudy Atwood, Mark Xianchen Liu Phatak, Hemant Liu, Larry Z. Oster, Gerry affil: Senior Consultant, Policy Analysis Inc., Brookline, MA sug: subj: Inpatients Evaluation Venous Thromboembolism Economics Billing and Claims Statistics and Numerical Data Length of Stay Costs and Cost Analysis Human Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Male Female Middle Age Aged Confidence Intervals Adult Aged, 80 and Over Funding Source Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Adult: 19-44 years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Purpose. The results of a study to estimate the economic costs of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized nonsurgical patients during initial admissions and subsequent to hospital discharge are presented. Methods. Using a database linking admission records from more than 150 U.S. hospitals to health insurance claims, 49,948 patients 40 years of age or older who were hospitalized at least once during a 6-year period for diagnoses other than VTE or traumatic injury and who met other inclusion criteria were identified. Costs were tallied from the index admission to postdischarge day 180 for patients with and patients without evidence of VTE. Ordinary least-squares regression was used to estimate the independent relationship between VTE and total health care costs, controlling for differences in patient characteristics. Results. Two hundred forty-two patients (0.5%) had VTE during the index admission, 317 (0.6%) had VTE after the index admission discharge; in total, 559 (1.1%) had VTE through postdischarge day 180. Among the 242 patients with VTE during their index admission, the adjusted mean total health care costs over 180 days were $17,848 higher than among those without VTE ($47,416 versus $29,568, p < 0.001); for the 317 patients with postdischarge VTE, the adjusted mean total 180-day costs were $51,863 higher than for those without postdischarge VTE ($74,136 versus $22,273, p < 0.001). Conclusion. Among medically ill patients admitted to the hospital, health care costs were significantly higher among those who developed VTE during hospitalization or after discharge compared with those who did not develop VTE. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|