Assessment of health care cost for complex surgical patients: Review of cost, re-imbursement and revenue involved in pancreatic surgery at a high-volume academic medical centre

HPB

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 311-317

  Kachare, Swapnil D ^a,b   Liner, Kendall R ^a   Vohra, Nasreen A ^a   Zervos, Emmanuel E ^a   Hickey, Todd ^b   Fitzgerald, Timothy L ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS SCORE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAVA VEIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSFUSION RELATED SCORE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924338830     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hpb.12349     Document Type: Article

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