Costs and length of stay in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure

• Authors: ONDRÁČKOVÁ Barbora; MIKLÍK Roman; PAŘENICA Jiří; ŠPINAR Jindřich; ŠTÍCHA Michal
• Year of publication: 2007
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Value in Health
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine

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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%).