title: Direct hospital costs in coronary bypass surgery.
abstract: The direct hospital costs of 100 coronary artery bypass grafting operations are calculated. The basis of the calculations is the detailed, function-based, market-priced analysis of the files, including the hospital deaths, complication and reoperations of this patient group. The price of a CABG operation proved to lie somewhere between FIM 30,000 and 50,000, the mean value being FIM 46,800. The variation range is wide: FIM 18,200-FIM 249,500 (SD +/- FIM 26,000). It must be emphasized, however, that all preoperative hospital costs including coronary angiography costs and also postoperative follow-up hospital costs fall beyond this study.
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000379:methods; D004209:Disposable Equipment / Q000191:economics; D005387:Finland; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits