The impact of long-term acute-care facilities on the outcome and cost of care for patients undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation
Critical Care MedicinePublished 1 February 2000
Michael G. Seneff, Doug Wagner, Douglas Thompson, Charlene Honeycutt, Michael R. Silver
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Acute‐care hospitals can reduce the amount of uncompensated care by earlier transfer of appropriate patients to a long‐term acute‐care facility by controlling for variables associated with the 6‐month mortality rate.
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Patients undergoing prolonged ventilation have high hospital and 6-month mortality rates, and 6-month outcomes are not significantly different for those transferred to long-term acute-care facilities. These patients generate high costs, and acute-care hospitals are significantly underreimbursed by Medicare for these costs. Acute-care hospitals can reduce the amount of uncompensated care by earlier transfer of appropriate patients to a long-term acute-care facility.
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