Effect of evidence-based acute pain management practices on inpatient costs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate hospital cost changes associated with a behavioral intervention designed to increase the use of evidence-based acute pain management practices in an inpatient setting and to estimate the direct effect that changes in evidence-based acute pain management practices have on inpatient cost.

Data sources/study setting

Data from a randomized "translating research into practice" (TRIP) behavioral intervention designed to increase the use of evidence-based acute pain management practices for patients hospitalized with hip fractures.

Study design

Experimental design and observational "as-treated" and instrumental variable (IV) methods.

Data collection/extraction methods

Abstraction from medical records and Uniform Billing 1992 (UB92) discharge abs

SUBMITTER: Brooks JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2669631 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature