Drivers of healthcare costs in patients with ischaemic stroke: a hospital-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate how costs of healthcare can be reduced, there is an increasing need to gain insight into the main drivers of such costs. We evaluated drivers of costs of predefined subgroups of patients who had a stroke by linking cost registration with clinical data.

Methods

We retrospectively selected 555 consecutive patients with ischaemic stroke participating between June 2011 and December 2016 in the Dutch Parelsnoer Initiative. Patient characteristics and costs of healthcare activities during hospital admission and the first 3 months after discharge were linked. Patients were divided in subgroups based on age, severity of stroke, stroke subtype, discharge destination and functional outcome. Unit cost per healthcare activity was based on 2018 rates for mutual ser

SUBMITTER: Mensing LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9815001 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature