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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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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| 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 |