title: Open heart surgery: intensive care component, clinical profile and costs over one year.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Havill
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Armistead
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ullal
mesh_terms: 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