Association of Anemia With Hospital Costs in Elective Colorectal Surgery

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anemia; Surgical Blood Loss; Surgery; Colon Cancer; Economic Problems

Treatments: Other: Anemia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03476707

DM9

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to measure the adjusted association between preoperative anemia and total hospital costs. We hypothesize that patients with anemia before surgery will have higher hospitalization costs than people without anemia.

Full description

This study will examine the association between preoperative anemia (hematocrit less than 0.39; low blood counts) and hospital total costs from elective colorectal surgery. Total costs will be defined as the combination of direct and indirect costs ascertained using standardized patient-level costing algorithms (i.e. the standard way that hospital measure their costs). Adjustment will be made for factors that are likely to influence both the presence of anemia and costs of care.

Enrollment: 851 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective hospital admission
• having colorectal surgery

Exclusion criteria

• not enrolled in national surgical quality improvement program data collection

Trial design

851 participants in 2 patient groups

Anemic

Description:

People with a preoperative hematocrit less than 0.39

Treatment:

Other: Anemia

Non-anemic

Description:

People with a preoperative hematocrit greater than or equal to 0.39