The Effect of Consultations on the Cost of Pre-Anesthetic Assessment
- 1 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
- 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey;Department of Anesthesiol- ogy and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
- 3 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
- 4 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
- 5 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
- 6 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Firat University School of Medicine, Elaz??, Turkey
Abstract
Background: In our study , researching the distribution of the consultations other than anaesthesia in compliance with the disciplines and ages of the patients and its effect on the assessment cost has been aimed. Methods: Our study has been conducted during 8 months by the retrospective assessment of the records of 3844 cases on which an elective sur gical procedure was planned in the anesthesiology polyclinic of F i rat University Hospital. The records of patients have been obtained through examining their files from the hospital record system. Results: The total number of patients whose consultations have been demanded w as 367 (9.5%) and the number of male/female was 192/175. The number of cases about which more than one consultation has been demanded was determined as 87 (2.2%). The number of cases on which a method change for the anaesthesia was applied was 21 (5.7%), and the number of cases whose surgery was cancelled was 3 (0.81%). Requested consultation for each patient, the consultations of cardiology, chest diseases and internal medicine bring an additional cost on the total sum respectively as 37.2 TL (28.61 $), 29.8 TL (22.92 $) and 19.9 TL (15.30 $). Conclusions: We suggest that the cost analysis should be absolutely taken into consideration during the pre-anaesthetic assessment for the requirement of routine examinations .
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