Staff cost in direct nursing care at an intensive care unit

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Sandra Cristina Ribeiro Telles¹  Valéria Castilho² 

[1] ,University of São Paulo College of Nursing ,Brazil

关键词: costs and cost analysis;    intensive care;    nursing;    costos y análisis de costo;    cuidados intensivos;    enfermería;    custos e análise de custo;    cuidados intensivos;    enfermagem;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692007000500019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This quantitative case study aimed to learn and analyze the personnel cost in nursing direct care in the intensive care unit. We opted to use a therapeutic intervention score index, TISS-28, for the analysis of the indirect gravity of patients and the dimension of the nursing staff working time. Evaluating the cost by a gravity score presented to be a logical and relatively simple method to allocate costs per patient in the intensive care unit. In this exploratory and descriptive study, the average TISS-28 per patient was 31 points, requiring a daily expenditure of care hours of R$ 298.69. It was evidenced in this study that personnel costs are variable since there are patients with different complexities. Therefore is possible to estimate the nursing staff cost by assessing its work load.

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