NCT03476707

Association of Anemia With Hospital Costs in Elective Colorectal Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 851 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Surgery
• Surgical Blood Loss
• Anemia
• Colon Cancer
• Economic Problems

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Anemia	Hematocrit less than 0.39

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2018-03-26
• Last updated: 2024-09-24
• Results posted: 2024-09-24