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OBJECTIVE:To cost adult intensive care by determining inputs to production, resource consumption per patient, and total cost per intensive care unit (ICU) stay. DESIGN:Prospective cost-accounting analysis of each patient stay in the ICU, over a 1-yr period. SETTING:An 11-bed, medical/surgical adult ICU, in a 932-bad urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS:All patients' admissions to an adult ICU over a 1-yr period, excluding those patients admitted solely for repeat hemodialysis. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENT AND MAIN RESULTS:Demographic information was collected, including age, gender, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score, primary reason for ICU admission, operative (elective and emergency) and nonoperative status, ICU length of stay, and ICU outcome. Direct patient care costs were accounted to individual patients whose care generated those costs, and indirect patient care costs were averaged over all patients in the ICU on a daily basis. Costs were collected for human (nursing, medical, professional, and support staff) and capital (laboratory, diagnostic imaging, supplies, drugs, and equipment) resources. Cost information was available on 690 patients (43% female, 57% male). Cost/day/patient was $1,508 +/- 475 (1992 Canadian dollars) and the average cost per ICU stay was $7,520 +/- 11,606. Median cost/stay for all patients was $2,600. Cost per ICU stay was < $5,000 in 68% of patients, with an ICU survival rate of 85%. High cost was not a marker for poor survival. There was no relationship between age and cost categories. Across most diagnoses, cost/ day/patient was remarkably constant, approximating $1,500/day/ patient at existing labor rates. CONCLUSIONS:In order to develop strategies aimed at cost containment, it is first necessary to undertake a thorough examination of cost drivers. This detailed cost-accounting study determined inputs to production, resources consumed by individual patients, and costs incurred during ICU stay.
journal_name
Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Noseworthy TW,Konopad E,Shustack A,Johnston R,Grace Mdoi
10.1097/00003246-199607000-00017subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-07-01 00:00:00pages
1168-72issue
7eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293journal_volume
24pub_type
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198506000-00009
更新日期:1985-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
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doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31820eda29
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00003246-199422091-00004
更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To explore the effects of dobutamine and norepinephrine on the global cardiovascular response and on the relationship between oxygen uptake (VO2) and oxygen delivery (DO2) during an acute reduction in blood flow associated with tamponade. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled acute intervention study. ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199402000-00022
更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198703000-00015
更新日期:1987-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:With decreasing mortality in PICUs, a growing number of survivors experience long-lasting physical impairments. Early physical rehabilitation and mobilization during critical illness are safe and feasible, but little is known about the prevalence in PICUs. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of rehabilitatio...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004291
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To assess the agreement between computed tomography and transcranial sonography in patients after decompressive craniectomy. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:The medical intensive care unit of a university-affiliated teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Thirty head-injured patients consecutively admitted to the in...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318246b6ea
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/ccm.0b013e318186a720
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199803000-00024
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000000551
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198710000-00012
更新日期:1987-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198507000-00005
更新日期:1985-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between aminoglycoside disposition kinetics and hemodynamic response to sepsis, as well as vital support therapy, in critically ill patients with sepsis. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study of critically ill patients with sepsis undergoing physiologic and aminoglycoside pharmacokinetic m...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199705000-00016
更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Initial success with chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia is leading to expanded use through multicenter trials. Cytokine release syndrome, the most severe toxicity, presents a novel critical illness syndrome with limited data regarding diagnos...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002053
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000114816.62331.08
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199709000-00023
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The American College of Critical Care Medicine provided 2002 and 2007 guidelines for hemodynamic support of newborn and pediatric septic shock. Provide the 2014 update of the 2007 American College of Critical Care Medicine "Clinical Guidelines for Hemodynamic Support of Neonates and Children with Septic Shoc...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002425
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To describe the effects of inhaled prostacyclin administered after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) to a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension. DESIGN:Case report and literature review. SETTING:Cardiac surgical operating rooms and postoperative recovery unit. PATIENTS:A 63-yr-old female who had undergone ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00003246-200212000-00023
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199009000-00012
更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002993
更新日期:2018-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000181730.02238.9b
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001861
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000126359.92825.e9
更新日期:2004-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000098029.65347.F9
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200206000-00030
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198409000-00039
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199001000-00003
更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200210000-00030
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200003000-00039
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::In a prospective 30-month study of nosocomial infections in a pediatric ICU (PICU), the incidence, sites, and causes of infection were determined. Factors associated with increased risk of infection were investigated. In 1,388 patients who remained in the PICU for a minimum of 72 h, 116 infections occurred (6.1 infect...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00003246-198803000-00005
更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00