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- M Schuster, L Kuntz, D Hermening, M Bauer, K Abel, and A E Goetz.
- Zentrum für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg. m.schuster@uke.uni-hamburg.de
- Anaesthesist. 2006 Jan 1;55(1):26-32.
AbstractMeasurement and assessment of the economic efficiency of clinical departments is still an unresolved, yet important problem in hospital management. Benchmarking with other providers can help to evaluate one's own efficacy in anaesthesia and intensive care services. In this article we describe a method for using the diagnosis-related-groups (DRG) cost breakdown data, to achieve a case mix adjusted comparison of own costs for anaesthesia and intensive care services with the average costs in German hospitals. On the basis of 19,401 cases from 10 different surgical departments, we compared our own costs with the German-wide benchmark. Major factors for profit optimisation are discussed. Special attention is given to the close interaction of surgical, anaesthesiological and intensive care process performance and costs and its impact on benchmarking studies.
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