Abstract

LOPEZ VERANES, Felipa Nerys et al. Economic effect of the average hospital stay increase. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.11, pp.1540-1547. ISSN 1029-3019.

A study of partial economic evaluation of costs description type for the increase of the average of hospital stay and its economic effect was carried out in "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical-Surgical Provincial Hospital from Santiago de Cuba during 2010, for which the information concerning the period from January to December, 2005 was used; the last available to the effects. The main indicators of the integral hospital efficiency were analyzed and the costs days/patient were described through the fundamental deficiencies attributable to the increase of the hospital stay or overstay. Among the main results there were: the increase of the mentioned stay in the surgical services due to organizational and structural problems in the operating room, as well as an increase of the costs and days/patient in the first stage (from the admission to the complementary tests) and fourth stage (from discharge according to medical staff decision to the patient's leaving).

Keywords : indicators of hospital efficiency; management indicators; average hospital stay; hospital cost; economic evaluation.

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