Abstract

JIMENEZ FRANDIN, Marlene; ALFONSO AGUILAR, Pedro  and  PLACERES COLLOT, Maritza. Incidence of expenses for medicaments in the cost of hospital care. AMC [online]. 2001, vol.5, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.

Pharmacoeconomy is a relatively new term which refers to the application of the economic theory to pharmacotherapy. We carried out a descriptive study for evaluating the incidence of expenses for medicaments in the cost of hospital care during 1998/1999 in "Manuel Ascunce Domenech" Surgical teaching hospital of Camagüey city. The source for obtaining data were Expenses Registers for Medicaments, level of activity and hospital costs for the accounting sourceof information. The studied variables were: level of activity , expenses for each medicament and cost. Data obtained were processed and presented through statistics charts. The level of activity reported during 1998 was 227 674 days/ patients, expense for medicaments was of 238 272 and cost was of 107.77 pesos; in the year 1999 the level of activity reported was of 163 612 and the expense for medicaments rose to 2 667 135 determining a cost of 177. 21 pesos.

Keywords : EXPENDITURES, DRUGS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS.

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