Understanding Costs of Care in the Operating Room.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Increasing value requires improving quality or decreasing costs. In surgery, estimates for the cost of 1 minute of operating room (OR) time vary widely. No benchmark exists for the cost of OR time, nor has there been a comprehensive assessment of what contributes to OR cost.

Objectives

To calculate the cost of 1 minute of OR time, assess cost by setting and facility characteristics, and ascertain the proportion of costs that are direct and indirect.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis examined annual financial disclosure documents from all comparable short-term general and specialty care hospitals in California from fiscal year (FY) 2005 to FY2014 (N = 3044; FY2014, n = 302). The analysis focused on 2 revenue cen

SUBMITTER: Childers CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875376 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature