9th Article " Economic Evaluation of Drug Administration System in Intensive Care Units in Colombia"

Nur Fatmawati
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Economic Evaluation of Drug Administration System in Intensive Care Units in Colombia.

Sixty-three of 89 identified intensive care units in Colombia (Evaluation of Intensive Care in Colombia) participated in this voluntary study. A convenience sample of 20 intensive care units, each submitting 200 patients or more, was chosen, from which the following information is presented. The use of premix drugs can be a cost saving strategy,which decreases medical errors in drug administration in the ICU particular lyif it ispartofan integral error reduction program.The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Center (UK) protocol was used to evaluate patient severity, length of stay, raw and anticipated mortality, intensive care unit patient admission/rejection criteria, and human and technologic resources available. Colombian critical care has expanded to meet the needs of improving the increasingly complex care mandated by improvements in health care delivery, medical technology and vulnerable populations at the extremes of age.