For analytical purposes, the following continuous variables were collapsed into categorical data: age, household income, expenditure, length of stay and household size.
The distribution of positive health expenditures (and length of stay) exhibit skew, kurtosis and heteroscedasticity, with a non-constant and increasing variance, albeit particular cost problems, such as the accommodation of a probability mass at "zero", may not have immediate relevance to length of stay analysis [ 51, 69].
The results focus on hospitalization, out-of-pocket expenditure and length of stay.
This study is the first to provide nationally representative estimates of how annual medical expenditures increase with the length of time with diabetes.
The patients in the mortality group who had used ED services had a more severe triage (p < 0.001), and higher admission rate (4.9% vs 2.4% compared to the other group, p < 0.001) that could lead to subsequent aggressive interventions and more treatment-related expenditure and greater length of stay in their last 6 months of life.
1 Effective and accurate communication in handover is fundamental to facilitate high-quality healthcare. 2 Ineffective handover can lead to wrong treatment, delays in medical diagnosis, life-threatening adverse events, patient complaints, increased healthcare expenditure, increased hospital length of stay and a range of other effects that impact on the health system.
As DRG is based on an estimated cost of a certain patient group, reducing expenditures, by for instance reducing length of stay, for this patient group will improve hospital economy, at least in the short term.
This study aimed to determine the excess length of stay, extra expenditures, and attributable mortality to healthcare-associated S. aureus bloodstream infection (BSI) at a teaching hospital in central Brazil.
We used a decision model to estimate the length of life and expenditures for vaccination of adolescent girls for high-risk HPV types.
For a child with two or more admissions, we added up lengths of stay and inpatient expenditures for all admissions to obtain this child's total length of stay and total expenses.
