RESUMEN Introducción: La Unidad de Paciente Crítico (UPC) representa un servicio de elevada complejidad. La conformación de equipos avanzados que puedan abordar la población crítica, así como la gestión del cuidado, exigen el uso eficiente de recursos humanos y financieros. Objetivo: Realizar una ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To measure the average direct cost of peripherally inserted central catheterization performed by nurses in a pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit. Method: A quantitative, exploratory-descriptive, single-case study, whose sample consisted of the non-participant observation of 1...
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the mean direct cost (MDC) of the most frequent procedures performed by nursing professionals on severely burned patients in an Intensive Care Unit. Method: exploratory-descriptive quantitative single-case study. The MDC was calculated by multiplying time (timed) spent b...
ABSTRACT Objective: to calculate the cost of the average time of nursing care spent and required by patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the financial expense for the right dimension of staff of nursing professionals. Method: a descriptive, quantitative research, using the case study method, d...
Se analizan los indicadores económicos de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) del Hospital Provincial Docente "Saturnino Lora", de Santiago de Cuba, en el año 1980, por ser éste el más representativo del anterior quinquenio. Se obtiene de dicho análisis que los gastos directos generan el 67,4 % d...