… institutions, which have been associated with additional healthcare costs. We hypothesized
that at high-volume centers, the value of the extra survival outweighs the extra cost. …

… at high-volume centers does not explain the higher costs. Further research is indicated to
determine the ultimate contributor to higher costs in high-volume centers and will be the next …

… survival was achieved at a modest cost increase; however, we must be careful not to make
inferences beyond the level I trauma center… to make conclusions regarding the costs of care in …

… Level I and II trauma centers, and does not designate lower level centers (ie, Level III or Level
IV… to a non-trauma center are not eligible for care at a trauma center, their outcomes are not …

… Variable costs, especially diagnostic tests, are frequently blamed for rising health care
costs. In an attempt to decrease costs, some centers subdivided costs into nursing, laboratory, …

… , costs, and utilities were estimated from published sources. Calculated outcomes included
survival, quality-adjusted life-years, and incremental cost-… years, with 39% surviving to 1 year. …

… For example, operating room charges included supplies listed under that same cost center,
… and laboratory costs before surgery were considered to be hospital surgical costs. If the …

… patients included in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's … survival among injured
patients hospitalized in states that categorize rural hospitals as Level III and IV trauma centers …

… months with clinical examination and serum biomarker levels. CT scans were performed at
yearly … to the University of Kentucky Medical Center 10 times for a total of 40 days (range 11 - …

… Therefore, although the number of survival days of the VRE cases was significantly lower
than that for the VSE infection cases, it did not reach the statistically significant level. …