Patient variables impacting hospital costs from 2008 to 2010

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-140

  Aplin, Brett ^a   Nazzal, Munier ^a   Qu, Weikai ^a   Zelenock, Gerald ^a   Kazan, Viviane ^a   Abbas, Jihad ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

factors; Hospital charges; Hospital Cost; Nationwide inpatient samples database; patient data; patients variables

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CARDIAC IMPLANT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EMERGENCY CARE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISPANIC; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INJURY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931334522     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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