… our ICU non-survivors had a greater variable cost than survivors concerning both total and
partial costs. … blood gases were depicted as the most costly interventions of ICU care. Actually, …

… As expected, we found wide variability in variable costs, both within and between diagnostic
… This means that we took into account only direct variable costs. Direct costs are those fully …

… All patients who required ICU care from 2003 through 2005 were included, regardless of
mortality status. Patients were excluded from the study if they spent less than 48 hours in the …

… We repeated all analyses using variable costs instead of direct-variable costs. These …
patients—2 groups that differ greatly in terms of severity of illness and indications for ICU care. …

… The total days of ICU stay were 2,548 and the total variable cost was€ 1,460,465 (€
573.18 per patient and per days). Cost per patient was subdivided as follows: medication (including …

… Mean daily ICU variable costs and total ICU stay variable costs in hospital survivors and
non-survivors were determined for intensive care patients (CS + GIC) and the subgroups CCU, …

… 2 The present study employed direct variable cost per day, which is a better measure of … In
summary, this study examined the direct per day costs of ICU and non-ICU care with a view to …

… high-cost group when the cost of care at ICU per … cost of care at ICU and the cost of care
for total hospital admission between the two groups were also compared. Continuous variables …

… the contributors to ICU daily variable cost, understand how costs change over the duration
of the … For patients requiring ICU admission, their ICU care accounts for the majority of total …

… in the ICU with costs of ICU care accounting for time-varying illness severity and death. …
The primary dependent (outcome) variable for this investigation was total ICU cost. The financial …