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Open heart surgery: intensive care component, clinical profile and costs over one year
J H Havill1, J E Moore, S Armistead
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton.
The New Zealand Medical Journal
|January 22, 1992
Abstract:
A profile of 333 patients admitted to the intensive therapy unit, Waikato Hospital, over one year ending 30 June 1990, is presented. A close costing of a representative sample of 30 of those patients was done. The average cost of their intensive care stay was $2948 per patient. Twenty-four of the patients cost an average $2200 and the other six cost an average $5700.