TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Regional Anesthesia, Cost, Operating Room, and Personnel Management
A1  - Laur, John
A1  - Dexter, Franklin
A2  - Hadzic, Admir
PY  - 2017
T2  - Hadzic's Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, 2e
AB  - Whether  in  a  private  practice  anesthesia  group,  academic  institution,  hospital  organization,  or  some  hybrid  of  these,  understanding  how  regional  anesthesia  (RA)  affects  your  budget  and  costs,  as  well  as  the  perceptions  and  outcomes  of  patients,  is  important  for  planning  and  conducting  economic  discussions  with  health  care  administrators  and  surgeons.  This  chapter  reviews  the  costs  and  economics  of  RA  and  describes  the  concepts  that  apply  to  anesthesia  providers  and  groups  across  the  globe.  Billing  is  not  included  as  each  country  chooses  how  it  bills  and  is  paid  for  RA  procedures.  Moreover,  we  focus  on  outpatient  anesthesia,  for  which  cost  savings  can  be  better  defined.  While  facilities  may  benefit  financially  from  RA  applied  in  inpatient  settings,  such  billing  and  cost  issues  are  local.  The  economics  of  heterogeneity  in  bringing  down  costs  for  measured  reductions  in  length  of  stay  (LOS)  were  reviewed  recently.1,2,3,4  In  brief,  although  RA  can  reduce  patient  LOS,  Taheri  et  al  demonstrated  that  for  patients  with  an  average  LOS  of  4  days  or  more,  the  majority  of  costs  occur  in  the  initial  days  of  the  hospital  stay,  and  only  3%  of  costs  are  incurred  in  the  concluding  hospital  days.1  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141737873
ER  -