Activity‐based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals

Shander, Aryeh; Hofmann, Axel; Ozawa, Sherri; M. Theusinger, Oliver; Gombotz, H.; R. Spahn, Donat

doi:10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02518.x

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Activity‐based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals

Published in Transfusion • Dec 9, 2009

Authors:

Aryeh Shander

Axel Hofmann

Sherri Ozawa

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Blood utilization has long been suspected to consume more health care resources than previously reported. Incomplete accounting for blood costs has the potential to misdirect programmatic decision making by health care systems. Determining the cost of supplying patients with blood transf...

Subject

Medicine

Activity-based costing

Health care

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