Costs, outcome and cost-effectiveness of neurocritical care: a multi-center observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neurocritical illness is a growing healthcare problem with profound socioeconomic effects. We assessed differences in healthcare costs and long-term outcome for different forms of neurocritical illnesses treated in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods

We used the prospective Finnish Intensive Care Consortium database to identify all adult patients treated for traumatic brain injury (TBI), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and acute ischemic stroke (AIS) at university hospital ICUs in Finland during 2003-2013. Outcome variables were one-year mortality and permanent disability. Total healthcare costs included the index university hospital costs, rehabilitation hospital costs and social security costs up to one year. All costs were conve

SUBMITTER: Raj R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6148794 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature