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Comparative costs for critically ill patients with limited English proficiency versus English proficiency

OBJECTIVES: To conduct comparative cost analysis of hospital care for critically ill patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) versus patients with English proficiency (controls). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a historical cohort study using propensity matching at Mayo Clinic Rochester, a...

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Autores principales: Barwise, Amelia K., Moriarty, James P., Rosedahl, Jordan K., Soleimani, Jalal, Marquez, Alberto, Weister, Timothy J., Gajic, Ognjen, Borah, Bijan J.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37186248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279126
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author Barwise, Amelia K.
Moriarty, James P.
Rosedahl, Jordan K.
Soleimani, Jalal
Marquez, Alberto
Weister, Timothy J.
Gajic, Ognjen
Borah, Bijan J.
author_facet Barwise, Amelia K.
Moriarty, James P.
Rosedahl, Jordan K.
Soleimani, Jalal
Marquez, Alberto
Weister, Timothy J.
Gajic, Ognjen
Borah, Bijan J.
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description OBJECTIVES: To conduct comparative cost analysis of hospital care for critically ill patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) versus patients with English proficiency (controls). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a historical cohort study using propensity matching at Mayo Clinic Rochester, a quaternary care academic center. We included hospitalized patients who had at least one admission to ICU during a 10-year period between 1/1/2008-12/31/2017. RESULTS: Due to substantial differences in baseline characteristics of the groups, propensity matching for the covariates age, sex, race, ethnicity, APACHE 3 score, and Charlson Comorbidity score was used, and we achieved the intended balance. The final cohort included 80,404 patients, 4,246 with LEP and 76,158 controls. Patients with LEP had higher costs during hospital admission to discharge, with a mean cost difference of $3861 (95% CI $822 to $6900, p = 0.013) and also higher costs during index ICU admission to hospital discharge, with a mean cost difference of $3166 (95% CI $231 to $6101, p = 0.035). A propensity matched cohort including only those that survived showed those with LEP had significantly greater mean costs for all outcomes. Sensitivity analysis revealed that international patients with LEP had significantly greater overall hospital costs of $9,240 than patients with LEP who resided in the US (95% CI $3341 to $15,140, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION: This is the first study to demonstrate significantly higher costs for patients with LEP experiencing a critical illness. The causes for this may be increased healthcare utilization secondary to communication deficiencies that impede timely decision making about care.
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spelling pubmed-101326902023-04-27 Comparative costs for critically ill patients with limited English proficiency versus English proficiency Barwise, Amelia K. Moriarty, James P. Rosedahl, Jordan K. Soleimani, Jalal Marquez, Alberto Weister, Timothy J. Gajic, Ognjen Borah, Bijan J. PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: To conduct comparative cost analysis of hospital care for critically ill patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) versus patients with English proficiency (controls). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a historical cohort study using propensity matching at Mayo Clinic Rochester, a quaternary care academic center. We included hospitalized patients who had at least one admission to ICU during a 10-year period between 1/1/2008-12/31/2017. RESULTS: Due to substantial differences in baseline characteristics of the groups, propensity matching for the covariates age, sex, race, ethnicity, APACHE 3 score, and Charlson Comorbidity score was used, and we achieved the intended balance. The final cohort included 80,404 patients, 4,246 with LEP and 76,158 controls. Patients with LEP had higher costs during hospital admission to discharge, with a mean cost difference of $3861 (95% CI $822 to $6900, p = 0.013) and also higher costs during index ICU admission to hospital discharge, with a mean cost difference of $3166 (95% CI $231 to $6101, p = 0.035). A propensity matched cohort including only those that survived showed those with LEP had significantly greater mean costs for all outcomes. Sensitivity analysis revealed that international patients with LEP had significantly greater overall hospital costs of $9,240 than patients with LEP who resided in the US (95% CI $3341 to $15,140, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION: This is the first study to demonstrate significantly higher costs for patients with LEP experiencing a critical illness. The causes for this may be increased healthcare utilization secondary to communication deficiencies that impede timely decision making about care. Public Library of Science 2023-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10132690/ /pubmed/37186248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279126 Text en © 2023 Barwise et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Marquez, Alberto
Weister, Timothy J.
Gajic, Ognjen
Borah, Bijan J.
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title_short Comparative costs for critically ill patients with limited English proficiency versus English proficiency
title_sort comparative costs for critically ill patients with limited english proficiency versus english proficiency
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37186248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279126
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