Alain Landais, Morgane Morel, Jacques Goldstein, Jerôme Loriau, Annie Fresnel, Corinne Chevalier, Gilles Rejasse, Pascal Alfonsi, Claude Ecoffey
OBJECTIVE: Perioperative goal-directed therapy (PGDT) has been demonstrated to improve postoperative outcomes and reduce the length of hospital stays. The objective of our analysis was to evaluate the cost of complications, derived from French hospital payments, and calculate the potential cost savings and length of hospital stay reductions. METHODS: The billing of 2388 patients who underwent scheduled high-risk surgery (i.e. major abdominal, gynaecologic, urological, vascular, and orthopaedic interventions) over three years was retrospectively collected from three French hospitals (one public-teaching, one public, and one private hospital)...
June 2017: Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine