Mills G, Chaffe A
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
Health Trends. 1993;25(1):38-40.
The findings of a comparative study of cost awareness amongst particular groups of health service staff are reported. The study is a repeat of that undertaken in 1987 by Fairbrass and Chaffe. The findings are compared to assess how awareness of the cost of anaesthetic drugs, fluids and disposables has changed as a result of the publicity since 1987. Without prior warning, the study group were asked to estimate the cost of twenty-eight items. The results show that their degree of accuracy remains poor. Overall the tendency was to overestimate costs, whilst a small number of expensive items such as volatile agents were consistently underpriced. The results show that, over the last three years, there has been no significant change in the knowledge of cost awareness. At a time when the effective use of scarce resources is being emphasised, a staff programme of continuing cost awareness training is recommended.
报告了一项针对特定医护人员群体成本意识的比较研究结果。该研究是对费尔布拉斯和查菲1987年所做研究的重复。将研究结果进行比较，以评估自1987年以来，由于宣传，麻醉药物、液体和一次性用品成本意识的变化情况。在没有事先通知的情况下，要求研究组估算28种物品的成本。结果显示，他们的估算准确度仍然很低。总体趋势是高估成本，而少数昂贵物品，如挥发性麻醉剂，一直被低估。结果表明，在过去三年中，成本意识知识没有显著变化。在强调有效利用稀缺资源之际，建议开展一项持续的员工成本意识培训计划。
