ArticleAmerican journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation2013
Factors associated with total inpatient costs and length of stay during surgical hospitalization among veterans who underwent lower extremity amputation.
Article in American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03913273 (Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface for Functional Limb Restoration After Transtibial Amputation), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface for Functional Limb Restoration After Transtibial Amputation
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
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- An Integrated Cost Model Based on Real Patient Flow: Exploring Surgical Hospitalization.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Safety of wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet (WALANT) in for lower limb surgery: A potential alternative in times of emergency.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Factors associated with prolonged post-operative acute care length of stay in limb amputation patients in Saskatchewan, Canada.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Factors Associated With Prolonged Length of Stay and Failed Lower Limb Prosthetic Fitting During Inpatient Rehabilitation.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2020Article
- Analysis of the Peri-Operative Cost of Non-Traumatic Major Lower Extremity Amputation in Jordan.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2020Article
- Impact of Inpatient Harms on Hospital Finances and Patient Clinical Outcomes.Journal of patient safety · 2018Article
- Initial blood pressure is associated with stroke severity and is predictive of admission cost and one-year outcome in different stroke subtypes: a SRICHS registry study.BMC neurology · 2016Article
- Effects of prosthetic limb prescription on 3-year mortality among Veterans with lower-limb amputation.Journal of rehabilitation research and development · 2015Observational
- Epidemiology of limb loss.Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2014Review
- Discharge Disposition After Limb Amputation in a Publicly Funded Health Care System.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study was to identify patient- and facility-level factors associated with total inpatient costs and length of stay (LOS) among veterans who underwent lower extremity amputation.
designPatient data for 1536 veterans were compiled from nine databases from the Veterans Health Administration between October 1, 2002, and September 30, 2003. Linear mixed models were used to identify the factors associated with the natural logarithm of total inpatient costs and LOS.
resultsStatistically significant factors associated with both higher total inpatient costs and longer LOS included admission by transfer from another hospital, systemic sepsis, arrhythmias, chronic blood loss anemia, fluid and electrolyte disorders, weight loss, specialized inpatient rehabilitation, and higher hospital bed counts. Device infection, coagulopathy, solid tumor without metastasis, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities accreditation, and the Medicare Wage Index were associated with only higher total inpatient costs. The factors associated with only longer LOS included older age, not being married, previous amputation complication, congestive heart failure, deficiency anemias, and paralysis.
conclusionsMost drivers of total inpatient costs were similar to those that increased LOS, with a few exceptions. These findings may have implications for projecting future healthcare costs and thus could be important in efforts to reducing costs, understanding LOS, and refining payment and budgeting policies.
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