Determinants of costs and resource utilization associated with open heart surgery

European Heart Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 574-578

  Sokolovic, E ^a,b   Schmidlin, D ^a   Schmid, E R ^a   Turina, M ^a   Ruef, C ^a   Schwenkglenks, M ^a   Szucs, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Economics; Infection; Insurance; Outcome; Risk scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036555004     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.2001.3031     Document Type: Article

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