Estimating the hospital costs of inpatient harms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the additional hospital costs associated with inpatient medical harms occurring during an index inpatient admission and costs from subsequent readmissions within 90 days.

Data source

2009 to 2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient Databases from 12 states.

Study design

We compare hospital costs incurred by patients experiencing a specific harm during their hospital stay to the costs incurred by similar patients who did not experience that harm.

Data extraction

We extracted records for adult patients admitted for a reason other than rehabilitation or mental health, were at risk of a harm, and were admitted for less than a year.

Principal findings

The costliest inpatient harms, such as surgical site infections a

SUBMITTER: Anand P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338300 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature