TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovations in burn care
T2 - Prediction of operating room costs
AU - McMillan, S. S.
AU - Parker, C. J.
AU - Winkler, J. B.
AU - Hilton, J. G.
AU - Herndon, D. N.
PY - 1985/1/1
Y1 - 1985/1/1
N2 - Because cost containment is an important issue in health care today, a retrospective analysis of expense versus body surface area (BSA) burn was done in 270 pediatric cases to develop a prediction of future costs. When the resultant predictor was applied to a subsequent 167 patients based on BSA burn, projected costs and number of operative, procedures came, within 7% of actual costs. The study offers a reliable means of using retrospective cost data for projecting future costs for a patient population and shows that operating room (OR) supply costs per procedure are not a constant, but increase in a logarithmic relationship to BSA burn. Thus, OR costs cannot he quantitated solely on a per procedure basis rather, the level of BSA burn severity is an integral part of individual operative procedure, costs.
AB - Because cost containment is an important issue in health care today, a retrospective analysis of expense versus body surface area (BSA) burn was done in 270 pediatric cases to develop a prediction of future costs. When the resultant predictor was applied to a subsequent 167 patients based on BSA burn, projected costs and number of operative, procedures came, within 7% of actual costs. The study offers a reliable means of using retrospective cost data for projecting future costs for a patient population and shows that operating room (OR) supply costs per procedure are not a constant, but increase in a logarithmic relationship to BSA burn. Thus, OR costs cannot he quantitated solely on a per procedure basis rather, the level of BSA burn severity is an integral part of individual operative procedure, costs.
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U2 - 10.1097/00004630-198509000-00013
DO - 10.1097/00004630-198509000-00013
M3 - Article
C2 - 3855223
AN - SCOPUS:0022391033
SN - 1559-047X
VL - 6
SP - 444
EP - 446
JO - Journal of Burn Care and Research
JF - Journal of Burn Care and Research
IS - 5
ER -