Daly/Cost Comparison in the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease at 17 Belgian Hospitals

Overview

Journal BMC Health Serv Res

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Health Services

Date 2024 Jan 19

PMID 38243251

Authors

Benoit Rondelet

Fabian Dehanne

Julie Van den Bulcke

Dimitri Martins

Asmae Belhaj

Benoit Libert

Pol Leclercq

Magali Pirson

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Abstract

Objective: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerosis that affects the lower extremities and afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide. Because of limited resources, the need to provide quality care associated with cost control is essential for health policies. Our study concerns an interhospital comparison among seventeen Belgian hospitals that integrates the weighting of quality indicators and the costs of care, from the hospital perspective, for a patient with this pathology in 2018.

Methods: The disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were calculated by adding the number of years of life lost due to premature death and the number of years of life lost due to disability for each in-hospital stay. The DALY impact was interpreted according to patient safety indicators. We compared the hospitals using the adjusted values of costs and DALYs for their case mix index, obtained by relating the observed value to the predicted value obtained by linear regression.

Results: We studied 2,437 patients and recorded a total of 560.1 DALYs in hospitals. The in-hospital cost average [standard deviation (SD)] was €8,673 (€10,893). Our model identified the hospitals whose observed values were higher than predicted; six needed to reduce the costs and impacts of DALYs, six needed to improve one of the two factors, and four seemed to have good results. The average cost (SD) for the worst performing hospitals amounted to €27,803 (€28,358).

Conclusions: Studying the costs of treatment according to patient safety indicators permits us to evaluate the entire chain of care using a comparable unit of measurement.

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