Smoking status and health care costs in the perioperative period: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Cigarette smoking adds an estimated $100 billion in annual incremental direct health care costs nationwide. Cigarette smoking increases complication risk in surgical patients, but the potential effects of smoking status on perioperative health care costs are unclear.

Objective

To test the hypothesis that current and former smoking at the time of admission for inpatient surgery, compared with never smoking, are independently associated with higher incremental health care costs for the surgical episode and the first year after hospital discharge.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based, propensity-matched cohort study, with cohort membership based on smoking status (current smokers, former smokers, and never smokers) was performed at Mayo Clin

SUBMITTER: Warner DO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4332384 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature