Variations in hospitalisation costs for acute myocardial infarction – a comparison across Europe

✍ Scribed by Oliver Tiemann

• Book ID: 102231147
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 154 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1057-9230
• DOI: 10.1002/hec.1322

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this study was to determine whether between-country variations in hospital costs are larger than withincountry variations and, furthermore, to explore reasons for this variability. For this purpose, we chose the primary treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as an episode of care. We obtained hospitalisation costs and reimbursement rates from 45 hospitals in nine different EU member states (i.e.