Open heart surgery: intensive care component, clinical profile and costs over one year.
A profile of 333 patients admitted to the intensive therapy unit, Waikato Hospital, over one year ending 30 June 1990, is presented. A close costing of a representative sample of 30 of those patients was done. The average cost of their intensive care stay was $2948 per patient. Twenty-four of the patients cost an average $2200 and the other six cost an average $5700.
Havill
J H
JH
Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton.
Moore
J E
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Armistead
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Ullal
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003422:Critical Care / Q000191:economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology