Drug Utilization and Costs for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
AUTOR(ES)
Muller, Charlotte
RESUMO
The study of drug experience of patients with acute myocardial infarction is part of a series studying factors that influence drug utilization in the hospital. The medical care field is more than ever aware of the associations between use of drugs, hospital costs, and quality of care. Aspects of utilization studied included variety, number, route, purpose, and cost of drugs; use of generic names in prescribing; and timing of drug orders during a patient's stay. In some of these aspects large teaching hospitals differ from small hospitals. It is especially striking that timing of drug orders differed between public and voluntary sectors; this was affected by the greater severity of disease and lower survival rate among city hospital patients. Direct costs of the drugs are low, in general, and so make up a small portion of hospital care costs. Each hospital showed a different pattern for principal purposes of medications used.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1065732Documentos Relacionados
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