COVID-19 and hospital management costs: the Italian experience.
BMC Health Serv Res
; 22(1): 991, 2022 Aug 04.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35922849
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
This article investigates the hospital costs related to the management of COVID-19 positive patients, requiring a hospitalization (from the positivity confirmation to discharge, including rehabilitation activities).METHODS:
A time-driven activity-based costing analysis, grounding on administrative and accounting flows provided by the management control, was implemented to define costs related to the hospital management of COVID-19 positive patients, according to real-word data, derived from six public Italian Hospitals, in 2020.RESULTS:
Results reported that the higher the complexity of care, the higher the hospitalization cost per day (low-complexity = 475.86; medium-complexity = 700.20; high-complexity = 1,401.65). Focusing on the entire clinical pathway, the overall resources absorption, with the inclusion of rehabilitation costs, ranged from 6,198.02 to 32,141.20, dependent from the patient's clinical condition.CONCLUSIONS:
Data could represent the baseline cost for COVID-19 hospital management, thus being useful for the further development of proper reimbursement tariffs devoted to hospitalized infected patients.Palabras clave
Texto completo:
1
Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
/
Health_economic_evaluation
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Health Serv Res
Asunto de la revista:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia