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Healthcare-related costs in very elderly intensive care patients
Authors:L. E. M. Haas  Ilse van Beusekom  Diederik van Dijk  Marije E. Hamaker  Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez  Dylan W. de Lange  Nicolette F. de Keizer
Affiliation:1.Department of Intensive Care Medicine,Diakonessenhuis Utrecht,Utrecht,The Netherlands;2.Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute,University of Amsterdam,Amsterdam,The Netherlands;3.National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Foundation,Amsterdam,The Netherlands;4.Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center,Utrecht University,Utrecht,The Netherlands;5.Department of Geriatrics,Diakonessenhuis,Utrecht,The Netherlands
Abstract:

Introduction

The long-term outcome of “very old intensive care unit patients” (VOPs; ≥?80 years) is often disappointing. Little is known about the healthcare costs of these VOPs in comparison to younger ICU patients and the very elderly in the general population not admitted to the ICU.

Methods

Data from a national health insurance claims database and a national quality registry for ICUs were combined. Costs of VOPs admitted to the ICU in 2013 were compared with costs of younger ICU patients (two groups, respectively 18–65 and 65–80 years old) and a matched control group of very elderly subjects who were not admitted to the ICU. We compared median costs and median costs per day alive in the year before ICU admission (2012), the year of ICU admission (2013) and the year after ICU admission (2014).

Results

A total of 9272 VOPs were included and compared to three equally sized study groups. Median costs for VOPs in 2012, 2013 and 2014 (€5944, €35,653 and €12,565) are higher compared to the ICU 18–65 population (€3022, €30,223 and €5052, all p?p?p?p?=?0.950). The median healthcare costs per day alive in the year before, the year of and the year after ICU admission are all higher for VOPs than for the other groups (p?

Conclusions

VOPs required more healthcare resources in the year before, the year of and the year after ICU admission compared to younger ICU patients and the very elderly control population, except compared to the ICU 65–80 population in the year of ICU admission. Healthcare costs per day alive, however, are substantially higher for VOPs than for all other study groups in all three studied years.
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