Direct costs of blood drawings with pre-analytical errors in tertiary paediatric hospital care.

Autor: Hjelmgren H; Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Heintz E; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Ygge BM; Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Andersson N; Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Nordlund B; Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Aug 25; Vol. 18 (8), pp. e0290636. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 25 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290636
Abstrakt: Background: Blood drawings is a common hospital procedure involving laboratory and clinical disciplines that is important for the diagnosis and management of illnesses in children. Blood drawings with pre-analytical error (PAE) can lead to increased costs for hospitals and healthcare organisations. The direct cost of blood drawings after a PAE is not fully understood in paediatric hospital care.
Aim: The aim of this study was to estimate the average direct cost of PAE per year and per 10,000 blood drawings in tertiary paediatric care.
Methods: A cost analysis using a bottom-up approach was conducted on the basis of combined information from the hospital's laboratory register for the period 2013-2014 and clinical in-ward observations at a tertiary children's referral hospital in Sweden, the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital. For the analysis, we hypothesised the re-collection of all blood drawings with PAE and included the average costs of the sampling materials, the time of the healthcare personnel, the laboratory analyses, and in-ward premises based on the time spent on the blood sampling procedure.
Results: The annual cost of PAE was estimated to be 74,267 euros per 54,040 blood drawings, which corresponds to 13,756 euros per 10,000 blood drawings or 1.5 euros per draw. The personnel cost represented 60.1% (45,261 euros per year) of the cost due to PAE, followed by costs for hospitalisation (25.2%), laboratory analyses (8.1%), and materials (5.7%).
Conclusion: PAEs lead to substantial increases in the costs in tertiary paediatric hospital care. If these PAEs can be avoided, costs related to the re-collection of blood drawings with PAE may be re-allocated to other health-promoting activities for children visiting hospital institutions.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Hjelmgren et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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