Determinants of per diem Hospital Costs in Mental Health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An understanding of differences in hospital costs between patient groups is relevant for the efficient organisation of inpatient care. The main aim of this study was to confirm the hypothesis that eight a priori identified cost drivers influence per diem hospital costs. A second aim was to explore further variables that might influence hospital costs.

Methods

The study included 667 inpatient episodes consecutively discharged in 2014 at the psychiatric hospital of the Medical Centre-University of Freiburg. Fifty-one patient characteristics were analysed. Per diem costs were calculated from the hospital perspective based on a detailed documentation of resource use. Mixed-effects maximum likelihood regression and an ensemble of conditional inference trees were used

SUBMITTER: Wolff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4816317 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature