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The cost of inpatient death associated with acute coronary syndrome

ByTravis Gray, and Jill Van Den Bos
25 February 2016

The cost of hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is expensive and continues to rise. In terms of direct medical expenditures, ACS costs Americans more than $150 billion annually, with approximately 60% to 75% of these costs related to hospital admission and readmission. No studies have addressed the cost of inpatient mortality during an ACS admission. This article compares ACS-related length of stay, total admission cost, and total admission cost by day of discharge/death for patients who died during an inpatient admission with a matched cohort discharged alive following an ACS-related inpatient stay.

This article was published by PubMed.

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Jill Van Den Bos

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