Cost savings attributable to reductions in intensive care unit length of stay for mechanically ventilated patients

JM Kahn, GD Rubenfeld, J Rohrbach, BD Fuchs - Medical care, 2008 - journals.lww.com
costs could be reduced along with length of stay (a proxy for long-run costs), we still found
that the actual cost savings associated with reductions in ICU length of stay are relatively …

Cost savings vary by length of stay for inpatients receiving palliative care consultation services

H Starks, S Wang, S Farber, DA Owens… - Journal of palliative …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
… This study examined cost savings by short, medium, and long lengths of stay to further
understand patterns of savings associated with inpatient PC consultation. As PC programs grow, …

Length of stay has minimal impact on the cost of hospital admission

PA Taheri, DA Butz, LJ Greenfield - Journal of the American College of …, 2000 - Elsevier
… Background: Hospital cost containment, cost reduction, and alternative care delivery … efforts
is hospital length of stay (LOS). Reducing the LOS purportedly yields large cost savings. The …

Decreased length of stay, cost savings and descriptive findings of enhanced patient care resulting from an integrated traumatic brain injury programme

S Khan, A Khan, M Feyz - Brain Injury, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… The implementation of an integrated TBI programme has reduced the average length of stay
from 30.5 to 12 days and resulted in tremendous cost savings of $21.8 million over 6 years. `…

Impact of the orthopaedic nurse practitioner role on acute hospital length of stay and costsavings for patients with hip fracture: A retrospective cohort study

LL Coventry, S Pickles, M Sin, A Towell… - Journal of advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
length of stay in hospital. A simple economic analysis was undertaken and cost-savings
fracture patients can reduce acute hospital length of stay resulting in important cost-savings. …

Point‐of‐care ultrasound‐first for the evaluation of small bowel obstruction: National cost savings, length of stay reduction, and preventable radiation exposure

CH Brower, CW Baugh, H Shokoohi… - Academic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Given the potential cost savings and other benefits … cost savings of a POCUS-first approach
for SBO. Our secondary aims were to estimate the cumulative reduction in ED length of stay (…

Reduction of intensive care unit length of stay: the case of early mobilization

A Hunter, L Johnson, A Coustasse - The health care manager, 2014 - journals.lww.com
cost savings with early mobilization in the ICU, the total cost of … ICU costs are related to LOS,
but frequently, ICU costs are … overhead costs of running a hospital, and these costs do not …

A model of cost reduction and standardization: improved cost savings while maintaining the quality of care

MJ Guzman, ME Gitelis, JG Linn, MB Ujiki… - Diseases of the Colon …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… in length of stay, 30-… cost savings in our study was changing the instrument used to ligate
the mesoappendix from a disposable energy device to a staple load, which resulted in savings

… dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts? A hospital's fixed costs are a reality that can make the idea of achieving savings by reducing length of stay …

SS Rauh, E Wadsworth, WB Weeks - Healthcare Financial …, 2010 - go.gale.com
… And second, many of the proxy metrics used to measure cost savings, such as length of
stay (LOS) and readmissions, typically do not reflect true cost savings but should be viewed as …

Relation between length of hospital stay and costs of care for patients with community-acquired pneumonia

MJ Fine, HM Pratt, DS Obrosky, JR Lave… - The American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
… the relation between length of hospital stay and daily medical care costs and to estimate the
potential cost savings associated with a reduced length of stay for patients with pneumonia. …