Key result
Patient-reported depression, chronic pain treatment, and low activity status, combined with surgical procedure type, predict high hospital costs for elective non-cardiac surgery.
Why the study?
It was unknown which patient-reported predictors contribute to the high cost of elective surgery.
Which patient-reported predictors contribute to high cost of elective non-cardiac surgery?
Which patient-reported predictors contribute to high cost of elective non-cardiac surgery?
Patient-reported factors including depression, chronic pain treatment, and low activity status are predictive of high hospital costs following elective non-cardiac surgery.
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May aid preoperative cost stratification in elective surgery; leaves open whether targeting these factors reduces expenditures.
Question: Which patient-reported predictors contribute to high cost of elective surgery? Findings: Depression, chronic pain treatment and low activity status in combination with the type of surgical procedure, predict high cost.
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Kluyts et al. (2021) studied this question. Patient-reported depression, chronic pain treatment, and low activity status, combined with surgical procedure type, predict high hospital costs for elective non-cardiac surgery.
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