DOCUMENTING THE COST OF CARE OF AN INTENS IVE-CARE UNIT USING TISS - AN ECONOMIC-ANALYSIS OF INTENSIVE-CARE

Authors
LEFERING R NEUGEBAUER E LECHLEUTHNER A TROIDL H
Citation
R. Lefering et al., DOCUMENTING THE COST OF CARE OF AN INTENS IVE-CARE UNIT USING TISS - AN ECONOMIC-ANALYSIS OF INTENSIVE-CARE, Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie, 1996, pp. 318-320
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00238236
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
2
Pages
318 - 320
Database
ISI
SICI code
0023-8236(1996):<318:DTCOCO>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The parallel documentation of Apache II and TISS socres on a surgical intensive care unit allows detailed cost-effectiveness analyses. 929 p atient were observed over 18 months with an average Apache score of 12 .8 and 32.3 TISS points per patient-day. A value of 44.46 DM per TISS point resulted from a detailed cost analysis.