Costs of vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
| Autor: | Chou CH; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA., Reed SD, Allsbrook JS, Steele JL, Schulman KA, Alexander MJ |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Neurosurgery [Neurosurgery] 2010 Aug; Vol. 67 (2), pp. 345-51; discussion 351-2. |
| DOI: | 10.1227/01.NEU.0000371980.08391.71 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To assess the impact of vasospasm on costs, length of stay, and mortality among inpatients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Methods: We combined hospital accounting and physician billing data for a consecutive cohort of 198 patients who underwent surgical clipping or endovascular coiling for subarachnoid hemorrhage repair. We considered patients with transcranial Doppler (TCD) velocity of 120 cm/s or greater in the middle cerebral artery to have TCD-defined vasospasm and patients with delayed ischemic neurological deficit to have symptomatic vasospasm. We compared outcomes of patients with TCD-defined vasospasm (n = 116) and those without (n = 73) and patients with symptomatic vasospasm (n = 62) and those without (n = 127), adjusting for demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: In adjusted analyses, the incremental cost attributable to TCD-defined vasospasm was 1.20 times higher (95% confidence interval, 1.06-1.36; P = .004) than for patients without TCD-defined vasospasm. Length of stay was an estimated 1.22 times longer for patients with TCD-defined vasospasm (95% CI, 1.07-1.39; P < .01). For symptomatic vasospasm, adjusted costs were 1.27 times higher (95% CI, 1.12-1.43; P < .001) and length of stay was an estimated 1.24 times longer (95% CI, 1.09-1.40; P < .01) for patients with vasospasm than for those without. There was no significant relationship between either type of vasospasm and in-hospital mortality. Conclusion: Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and TCD-defined or symptomatic vasospasm incur higher inpatient costs and longer hospital stays than those without vasospasm. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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