Journal article
Hospital Inpatient Costs for Single Ventricle Patients Surviving the Fontan Procedure
L Huang, C Schilling, KM Dalziel, S Xie, DS Celermajer, JJ McNeil, D Winlaw, TS Hornung, DJ Radford, LE Grigg, A Bullock, GR Wheaton, RN Justo, J Blake, R Bishop, K Du Plessis, Y d'Udekem
American Journal of Cardiology | EXCERPTA MEDICA INC-ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2017
Abstract
We estimated the inpatient resource use for a Fontan patient from birth to adulthood and explored factors that might induce cost differences (2014 US dollar). Inpatient costing records from 4 hospitals with greatest numbers of Fontan patients in Australia and New Zealand were linked with the Fontan registry database. Inpatient records between July 1995 and September 2014 for 420 Fontan patients were linked, and the most frequent primary diagnoses were hypoplastic left heart syndrome (20.7%), tricuspid atresia (19.7%), and double inlet left ventricle (17.1%). The mean hospital cost for a Fontan patient from birth to 18 years of age was estimated to be $390,601 (95% confidence interval [CI..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Partnership Grant 1076849 from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. d'Udekem is a consultant for Merck, Sharp & Dohme and Actelion.