ArticleThe Medical journal of Australia2022
Hospital costs and factors associated with days alive and at home after surgery (DAH
Article in The Medical journal of Australia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- External validation of a surgical mortality risk prediction model for inpatient noncardiac surgery in an Australian private health insurance dataset.ANZ journal of surgery · 2022Pooled it
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- Patient experiences and outcomes from a novel multidisciplinary preoperative shared decision-making clinic.Anaesthesia and intensive care · 2026Article
- The value of days alive and out of hospital 30 days after surgery as an outcome measure in a major cardiac surgical center in Australia.JTCVS open · 2026Article
- Impact of treatment strategy after malignant bowel obstruction in stage IV gastrointestinal cancer: population-based cohort study.BJS open · 2025Article
- Days at home after surgery as a perioperative outcome: scoping review and recommendations for use in health services research.The British journal of surgery · 2024Article
- The impact of preoperative stroke on 1-year mortality and days at home alive after major surgery: an observational cohort study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024Article
- Days at home alive after major surgery in patients with and without diabetes: an observational cohort study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the relationships of patient and surgical factors and hospital costs with the number of days alive and at home during the 30 days following surgery (DAH
designRetrospective cohort study; analysis of Medibank Private health insurance hospital claims data, Australia, 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2017. SETTING,
participantsAdmissions of adults (18 years or older) to hospitals for elective or emergency inpatient surgery with anaesthesia covered by private health insurance, Australia, 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2017.
main outcome measuresAssociations between DAH
resultsComplete data were available for 126 788 of 181 281 eligible patients (69.9%); their median age was 62 years (IQR, 47-73 years), 72 872 were women (57%), and 115 117 had undergone elective surgery (91%). The median DAH
conclusionsDAH
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