Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Jun 2017
Evaluation of financial burden following complications after major surgery in France: Potential return after perioperative goal-directed therapy.
Perioperative goal-directed therapy (PGDT) has been demonstrated to improve postoperative outcomes and reduce the length of hospital stays. The objective of our analysis was to evaluate the cost of complications, derived from French hospital payments, and calculate the potential cost savings and length of hospital stay reductions. ⋯ Our analysis demonstrates that patients with complications are significantly more expensive to care for than those without complications. In our model, it was projected that implementing PGDT during high-risk surgery may significantly reduce healthcare costs and the length of hospital stays in France while probably improving patient access to care and reducing waiting times for procedures.