Statistics are presented on the number and rate of procedures performed for inpatients in non-Federal short-stay hospitals by patient and hospital characteristics. These estimates are based on data abstracted from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. This report also presents estimates of average length of stay for single-listed procedures. Allmatarial appearing inthisr...

Based on data obtained from a national sample of the hospital records of inpatients &charged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals, hospital utilization by heart disease and malignant neoplasm patients is examined. The measures of hospital utilization employed are frequencies, rates, percents, and average Iengths of stay. Data are provided for these two specific diagnostic categories and for aI...

The primary objective of this article is to explore the feasibility of the application of cost minimization analysis in a teaching hospital environment. The investigation is concerned with the development of cost per admission and cost per patient day models. These models are further used for determining the value of the length of stay that would minimize cost per patient day (projected length ...

background and objectives: hospital is the largest and most costly operating unit of healthcare system. provision of optimal care requires that hospital administrators identify hospital performance based on relevant indicators. this study used the pabon lasso analysis to assess the performance of hospitals and identify strategies towards an improved hospital performance.   methods: this cross-s...

test, Wilcoxon test, Chi-square test) were: number of patients exposed to allogeneic red cells, amount of blood transfusions, and the number of length of stay in hospital. An economic model was quantified the cost saving of EVICEL® in ICH. Results: preliminary results showed that application of EVICEL reduce number of transfused RBC, postoperative haemoglobin loss, and days of hospital stay. In...

SETTING South Africa reports more cases of tuberculosis (TB) than any other country, but an up-to-date, precise estimate of the costs associated with diagnosing, treating and preventing TB at the in-patient level is not available. OBJECTIVE To determine the costs associated with TB management among in-patients and to study the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at a central academic h...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the potential reduction in hospital costs from adoption of best local practices in supply chain management and discharge planning. STUDY DESIGN We performed multivariate statistical analyses of the association between total variable cost per procedure and medical device price and length of stay, controlling for patient and hospital characteristics. METHODS Ten hospita...