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FONG ESTRADA, Juana Adela; ZAYAS ESTEVEN, Eloisa  y  OLIVA FONG, Jacquelin. Cost of antihypertensive treatment in elderly admitted to the services of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp.67-72. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 70 elderly with high blood pressure was carried out. They were admitted to the geriatrics and internal medicine services of "Dr. Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo" Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, during the first three months of 2009, in order to estimate the costs of their antihypertensive treatment that were classified in direct, indirect, total, average and unit costs; the pocket expense was also determined. The mean cost of the geriatrics service was $236,21 and in terms of drugs represented 26,14%, whose unit value per day/patient was $17,40, while the internal medicine service reported a higher mean cost per patient ($367,16) and the drugs constituted 23,95% of all the expenses with a cost per day/patient of $26,72.

Palabras clave : elderly; high blood pressure; antihypertensive treatment; hospital costs; Geriatrics Service; Internal Medicine Service.

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