Dedicated Perioperative Hip Fracture Comanagement Programs are Cost-effective in High-volume Centers: An Economic Analysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 474, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 222-233

  Swart, Eric ^a   Vasudeva, Eshan ^a   Makhni, Eric C ^a   Macaulay, William ^a   Bozic, Kevin J ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DELIRIUM; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALARY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; STRATIFICATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL COST; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; META ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84952870932     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4494-4     Document Type: Article

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