Examining Health Care Costs: Opportunities to Provide Value in the Intensive Care Unit

Beverly Chang; Javier Lorenzo; Alex Macario

doi:10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.012

Examining Health Care Costs: Opportunities to Provide Value in the Intensive Care Unit

Anesthesiol Clin. 2015 Dec;33(4):753-70. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.012.

Authors

Beverly Chang¹, Javier Lorenzo², Alex Macario³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3580, Stanford, CA 94305-5640, USA. Electronic address: Bevchang02@gmail.com.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3580, Stanford, CA 94305-5640, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3580, Stanford, CA 94305-5640, USA; Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3580, Stanford, CA 94305-5640, USA.

PMID: 26610628
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.012

Abstract

As health care costs threaten the economic stability of American society, increasing pressures to focus on value-based health care have led to the development of protocols for fast-track cardiac surgery and for delirium management. Critical care services can be led by anesthesiologists with the goal of improving ICU outcomes and at the same time decreasing the rising cost of ICU medicine.

Keywords: Critical care costs; Delirium and ABCDE bundle; Fast-track cardiac surgery; Measuring health care costs; US health care costs.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Critical Care / economics*
Critical Care / statistics & numerical data
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Intensive Care Units / economics*
Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data
United States