Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers

Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the people involved in providing care for specific events. To determine the major cost drivers of radical cystectomy care we used a TDABC analysis for the cystectomy care pathway.We retrospectively reviewed a random sample of 100 patients out of 717...