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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Importance of nondrug costs of intravenous antibiotic therapy. | Critical Care December 2003 Vol 7 No 6 van Zanten et al. Research Open Access Importance of nondrug costs of intravenous antibiotic therapy Arthur RH van Zanten1 Peter M Engelfriet2 Karin van Dillen3 Miriam van Veen3 Mark JC Nuijten4 and Kees H Polderman5 1Senior Consultant in Intensive Care Director of Intensive Care Department of Intensive Care Gelderse Vallei Hospital Ede The Netherlands 2Project Manager Medtap International Inc. Jisp The Netherlands 3Research Nurse Department of Intensive Care Gelderse Vallei Hospital Ede The Netherlands 4Managing Director Medtap International Inc. Jisp The Netherlands 5Senior Consultant in Intensive Care Department of Intensive Care VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands Correspondence Arthur RH van Zanten zantena@zgv.nl Received 1 July 2003 Revisions requested 20 August 2003 Revisions received 26 August 2003 Accepted 17 September 2003 Published 14 October 2003 Critical Care 2003 7 R184-R190 DOI 10.1186 cc2388 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 7 6 R184 2003 van Zanten et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction Costs are one of the factors determining physicians choice of medication to treat patients in specific situations. However usually only the drug acquisition costs are taken into account whereas other factors such as the use of disposable materials the drug preparation time and the staff workload are insufficiently taken into consideration. We therefore decided to assess true overall costs of intravenous IV antibiotic administration by performing an activity-based costing approach. Methods A prospective survey on costs and workload by means of a time and motion analysis and activity-based costing was performed in a 605-bed secondary .