Health care utilization and the cost of posttraumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Posttraumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation and longer hospitalizations. The relationship between posttraumatic ARDS severity and financial burden has not been previously studied. We hypothesized that increasing ARDS severity is associated with incrementally higher health care costs.

Methods

Adults arriving as the highest level of trauma activation were enrolled in an ongoing prospective cohort study. Patients who survived 6 hours or longer are included in the analysis. Blinded review of chest radiographs was performed by two independent physicians for any intubated patient with PaO2:FIO2 ratio of 300 mmHg or lower during the first 8 days of admission. The severity of ARDS was classified by the Berli

SUBMITTER: Robles AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029709 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature