Charge Reductions Associated With Shorter Time to Recovery in Septic Shock.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Septic shock therapies that shorten the time to physiologic and clinical recovery may result in financial savings. However, the financial implications of improving these nonmortal outcomes are not well characterized. Therefore, we quantified hospital charges associated with four outcomes: ICU length of stay, duration of invasive mechanical ventilation, duration of vasopressor use, and new renal replacement therapy.

Methods

This was an observational study using administrative data from a large academic hospital in the United States. The analysis included adults treated with vasopressors for septic shock in a medical ICU. Linear regression modeling with ordinary least square was used to estimate the incremental hospital charges associated with 1 day of ICU length of

SUBMITTER: Self WH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6363816 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature