Table 1. Summary Data on Two Types of Intensive Care Patients1.
| Brain Surgery (N=44) |
CABG (N = 52) |
All Hospital Patients (N = 15,000) |
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| Physical Data | |||
| Average Length of Stay | 25.0 (3.3) | 13.9 (0.5) | 8.6 |
| Average ICU Stay | 2.7 | 2.5 | — |
| Post-ICU Stay | 16.5 | 7.7 | — |
| Average Total TISS Points in ICU | 81.6(6.8) | 212.0 (10.1) | — |
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Charges Data (in dollars, 1979 prices) |
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| Total Hospital Stay | |||
| Bed Charges | 6,854 | 4,333 | 1,900 |
| Ancillary Charges | 4,537 | 6,538 | 1,000 |
| Operating Room | 2,865 | 3,253 | 700 |
| Total | 14,256 (1552) | 14,124 (423) | 3,600 |
| ICU Charges | |||
| Bed Charges | 1,882 | 1,698 | |
| Ancillary Charges | 858 | 2,479 | |
| Total | 2,740 | 4,178 | |
| Non-ICU Charges | |||
| Bed Charges | 4,972 | 2,635 | |
| Ancillary Charges | 3,678 | 4,058 | |
| Operating Room | 2,865 | 3,253 | |
| Total | 11,515 | 9,946 | |
1
These two patient types are comparable to DRG category 1 (brain surgery) and DRG 107 (CABG). The lengths of stay are slightly longer and more heterogeneous than experienced in New Jersey because outliers were not trimmed and some of the CABG patients received preoperative cardiac catheterization during this hospital stay. (Standard errors in parentheses.)