Comparative costs for substitutable services: inpatient and day surgery episodes of care

Healthc Manage Forum. 1995 Fall;8(3):36-43. doi: 10.1016/s0840-4704(10)60917-9.

Abstract

The authors analyze the differences in costs between inpatient and outpatient elective surgery, by case mix group*, using the University of Alberta Hospitals Patient Resource Consumption Profile database (PRCP), supplemented with additional data from other agencies. PRCP measures costs for both inpatient and outpatient cases and is linked to the hospital's medical records, so that individual case-costing and detailed cost comparisons can be made. The focus of the comparison is on cost per case, measured in terms of the entire episode of outpatient surgery.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Alberta
  • Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / economics*
  • Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / statistics & numerical data
  • Diagnosis-Related Groups
  • Elective Surgical Procedures / economics*
  • Episode of Care
  • Hospital Costs / statistics & numerical data*
  • Inpatients / classification
  • Length of Stay
  • Outpatients / classification
  • Patient Admission / economics*
  • Patient Admission / statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Readmission / economics
  • Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data
  • Utilization Review