Why the study?
Does postoperative goal-directed therapy improve clinical and financial outcomes in high-risk surgical patients?
Does postoperative goal-directed therapy improve clinical and financial outcomes in high-risk surgical patients?
Postoperative goal-directed therapy is cost-effective for high-risk surgical patients due to reduced complications and shorter hospital stays.
May warrant consideration for high-risk surgery; leaves open prospective confirmation of modeled savings.
The implementation of goal-directed therapy is both clinical and cost-effective. Additional implementation expenditures can be offset by savings due to reduced costs accrued from a reduction in complication rates and hospital length of stay. We conclude that goal-directed therapy provides significant benefits with respect to clinical and financial outcomes.
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Ebm et al. (2014) studied this question.