A Prospective Micro-costing Pilot Study of the Health Economic Costs of Acute Kidney Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Acute kidney injury (AKI) prevalence in the UK is estimated to be approximately 20% of all emergency admissions. Complications of AKI have a huge impact on health care costs. Most studies that have researched the economic costs of AKI have used macro-level costing using national tariffs and applying this to hospital episode statistics.

Methods

The Acute Kidney Outreach to Reduce Deterioration and Death (AKORDD) study was a pilot study that tested the provision of early specialist advice to improve outcomes for patients with AKI. As part of this prospective study, we undertook a health economics substudy that involved micro-costing to help more accurately define the total cost per patient.

Results

We found that the total cost of providing an AKI alert syst

SUBMITTER: Mistry H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224786 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature