Cost of hospital care for older adults with heart failure: medical, pharmaceutical, and nursing costs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the impact of patient characteristics, clinical conditions, hospital unit characteristics, and health care interventions on hospital cost of patients with heart failure.

Data sources/study setting

Data for this study were part of a larger study that used electronic clinical data repositories from an 843-bed, academic medical center in the Midwest.

Study design

This retrospective, exploratory study used existing administrative and clinical data from 1,435 hospitalizations of 1,075 patients 60 years of age or older. A cost model was tested using generalized estimating equations (GEE) analysis.

Data collection/extraction methods

Electronic databases used in this study were the medical record abstract, the financial data repository, the pharm

SUBMITTER: Titler MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2442365 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature