Open AccessDoes a single specialty intensive care unit make better business sense than a multi-specialty intensive care unit? A costing study in a trauma center in India
Author(s) -
Praveen Kumar,
Vishwanathan Jithesh,
Shakti Gupta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/1658-354x.152883
Subject(s) - medicine , specialty , activity based costing , intensive care unit , context (archaeology) , intensive care , trauma center , health care , emergency medicine , neurosurgery , polytrauma , total cost , medical emergency , retrospective cohort study , intensive care medicine , family medicine , surgery , business , paleontology , accounting , marketing , economics , biology , economic growth
Though intensive care units (ICUs) only account for 10% of hospital beds, they consume nearly 22% of hospital resources. Few definitive costing studies have been conducted in Indian settings that would help determine appropriate resource allocation.