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- Title
Lesões por escalpelamento: custo de curativos.
- Authors
Caetano Vieira, Glauber; Gonçalves de Oliveira, Pâmella; da Silva Ruivo, Maria do Socorro
- Abstract
Objectives: To determine the costs involved in performing dressings on victims of total scalping; identify the way the curatives are collected from the SUS; and to prepare an instrument to monitor the costs of dressings to be attached to the medical records. Methods: Descriptive research, quantitative approach, of documentary analysis, carried out at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia Foundation of Pará. Four cases were analyzed, the sum of the costs of each was analyzed and the arithmetic average was then performed. Results: The total cost of the 1st case was R$ 4,006.97, from the 2nd of R$ 7,918.83, from the 3rd of R$ 2,307.67 and from the fourth case of R$ 2,092.79. The arithmetic mean of the cases was R$ 4,081.56. Conclusion: Knowledge of the cost of a procedure in a hospital is necessary for excellence in the organization of the work process in that environment.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL records; SCALP; SURGICAL dressings; COST analysis; QUANTITATIVE research; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Enfermagem Brasil, 2019, Vol 18, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
1678-2410
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33233/eb.v18i4.1303