Accounting for the relationship between per diem cost and LOS when estimating hospitalization costs

BACKGROUND: Hospitalization costs in clinical trials are typically derived by multiplying the length of stay (LOS) by an average per-diem (PD) cost from external sources. This assumes that PD costs are independent of LOS. Resource utilization in early days of the stay is usually more intense, howeve...

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Autores principales: Ishak, K Jack, Stolar, Marilyn, Hu, Ming-yi, Alvarez, Piedad, Wang, Yamei, Getsios, Denis, Williams, Gregory C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-439

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-439

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