Luke Dawson, Emily Nehme, Ziad Nehme, Ella Zomer, Jason Bloom, Shelley Cox, David Anderson, Michael Stephenson, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Andrew Taylor, David Kaye, Louise Cullen, Karen Smith, Dion Stub
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to estimate the direct healthcare cost burden of acute chest pain attendances presenting to ambulance in Victoria, Australia, and to identify key cost drivers especially among low-risk patients. METHODS: State-wide population-based cohort study of consecutive adult patients attended by ambulance for acute chest pain with individual linkage to emergency and hospital admission data in Victoria, Australia (1 January 2015-30 June 2019). Direct healthcare costs, adjusted for inflation to 2020-2021 ($A), were estimated for each component of care using a casemix funding method...
March 14, 2023: Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ