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October 1, 1993AnaesthesiaOpen Access

Anaesthesia: cheap at twice the price?

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Population

50 anaesthetic staff

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

CBCraig R. BaileyGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustRRR. RuggierAtkins (United Kingdom)JCJ. N. CashmanUniversity of London

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Overview

Staff cost estimates in anaesthesia are unreliable; hypothesis-generating for targeted education or tools to improve accuracy.

Structured PICO

P
Population
50 anaesthetic staff
I
Intervention
Questionnaire estimating the cost of 28 drugs, fluids and disposables
O
Outcome
Accuracy of cost estimates compared to actual costs

Anaesthetic staff often underestimate the cost of expensive items and overestimate cheaper ones, though overall anaesthesia costs have remained stable in real terms since 1959.

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Bailey et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6fa6baf44fa9f079dd1d9ehttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb07428.x
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