COVID-19-related hospital cost-outcome analysis: The impact of clinical and demographic factors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although patients' clinical conditions have been shown to be associated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) severity and outcome, their impact on hospital costs are not known. This economic evaluation of COVID-19 admissions aimed to assess direct and fixed hospital costs and describe their particularities in different clinical and demographic conditions and outcomes in the largest public hospital in Latin America, located in São Paulo, Brazil, where a whole institute was exclusively dedicated to COVID-19 patients in response to the pandemic.

Methods

This is a partial economic evaluation performed from the hospital´s perspective and is a prospective, observational cohort study to assess hospitalization costs of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted b

SUBMITTER: Miethke-Morais A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8373618 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature