Publication details
Costs and length of stay in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure
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Year of publication | 2007 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Value in Health |
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Field | Cardiovascular diseases incl. cardiosurgery |
Keywords | acute heart failure; cost-of-illness; pharmacoeconomic analysis |
Description | Retrospective cost analysis estimates direct in-patient costs and length-of-stay (LOS) in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF) in the Faculty Hospital Brno in 2005. AHF is associated with poor prognosis and high costs during hospital admission; the predominant contributors of high costs are revascularization procedures (40%), stay in the ICU (31%) and antiarrhytmic interventions (22%). |