Hospital Costs of Surgical Complications
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 119 (9) , 1065-1066
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1984.01390210061013
Abstract
• Fifteen patients who had a general or gynecologic abdominal operation were operated on a second time for a complication of the first operation. There were three deaths. Extra costs attributable to the complications amounted to $211,503, of which one third was uncollectible. One half of the extra hospital days for surviving patients were spent in the intensive care unit. (Arch Surg 1984;119:1065-1066)This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: