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The financial cost of intensive care in Australia: a multicentre registry study
Author(s) -
Hicks Peter,
Huckson Sue,
Fenney Emma,
Leggett Isobel,
Pilcher David,
Litton Edward
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja2.50309
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care , intensive care unit , activity based costing , health care , business , emergency medicine , medical emergency , finance , accounting , intensive care medicine , economic growth , economics
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcomes and Resources Evaluation (CORE) Critical Care Resources (CCR) registry collects information and each financial year reports aggregate data on ICU activities and resources, a declared quality assurance activity under the federal Health Insurance (Quality Assurance Confidentiality) Amendment Act 1992. The annual survey for collecting these data is completed by ICU heads of department or their nominated representatives.2 We analysed data for Australian ICUs from the 2013/14 CCR survey, which included questions (additional to those in the regular survey) on the major components of expenditure (cost blocks).3 Participating ICUs reported annual costs for selected budget items and total ICU expenditure (Supporting Information, table 1); capital expenditure, organisational overhead costs, and equipment costs were not included.3 The cost per patient bedday, the annual cost per ICU bed, and total annual costs were calculated (further details: Supporting Information). The study was approved by the Alfred Health Human Research Ethics Committee (reference, 449/19).