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December 1, 2010Journal of Perioperative Practice

‘The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing’: Cost Awareness in Anaesthesia

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Population

50 anaesthetic staff

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

MHMarios HadjipavlouGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustCBCraig R. BaileyGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Implication

Poor cost awareness among anaesthetic staff may drive inefficient choices; hypothesis-generating for experience-agnostic training to improve stewardship.

Structured PICO

P
Population
50 anaesthetic staff
I
Intervention
Estimating the cost of 33 commonly used drugs and disposables
O
Outcome
Accuracy of cost estimation for drugs and disposables

Anaesthetic staff demonstrate poor knowledge regarding the cost of commonly used drugs and consumables, regardless of their years of experience.

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Hadjipavlou et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8926d76fb350aba912755bhttps://doi.org/10.1177/175045891002001205
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