The cost of intensive and special care of the newborn
| Autor: | Peter B. Marshall, Heather J. Halls, Simon L. James, Anthony R. Grivell, Allan Goldstein, Michael N. Berry |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Service (business)
Nursing staff Medical staff business.industry Australia Infant Newborn General Medicine Nursing Staff Hospital medicine.disease Diagnostic Services Indirect costs Intensive Care Units Neonatal Costs and Cost Analysis Medical Staff Hospital Humans Medicine Prospective Studies Special care Medical emergency Level of care business Equipment and Supplies Hospital health care economics and organizations Bed Occupancy |
| Zdroj: | Medical Journal of Australia. 150:568-574 |
| ISSN: | 1326-5377 0025-729X |
| DOI: | 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb136694.x |
| Popis: | The cost of providing intensive (level-3) and special (level-2) care for newborn infants in a tertiary perinatal service was determined prospectively and was expressed in 1984 Australian dollars. Direct costs that were expressed per occupied bed-day were $690 for level-3, high-dependency care; $421 for level-3, low-dependency care; $544 for over-all level-3 care; $242 for level-2, high-dependency care; $170 for level-2, low-dependency care; and $201 for over-all level-2 care. Each level of care generated additional costs of $42 per occupied bed-day. Taking these additional costs into account, the over-all occupied bed-day cost of level-3 and level-2 neonatal care was $339. The major components of this over-all cost were: nursing staff members, 50%; medical staff members, 11%; consumable and recyclable items, 12%; and diagnostic services, 8%. |
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