A quantitative, descriptive, and exploratory case study, aiming to calculate the direct implementation costs of a prevention protocol for pressure ulcers (PUs) in a university hospital. We mapped the activities constituting the creation steps, the implementation, and assessment of the protocol implementation. The hourly salary/professional was multiplied by the time spent in each activity and the costs of each ...
The objective was to identify the attitudes of nurses regarding the results of a study on the cost of nursing care with high-dependency patients admitted to a university hospital. Eleven recorded interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed by the technique of content analysis and discussed in light of the theoretical framework on cost management. Respondents showed favorable attitudes as to having knowledg...
The objective of this exploratory study was to describe and map out the billing process in a public tertiary-level university hospital specialized in cardiology and pulmonology. In the period between May and June of 2012, we identified and documented the steps in the process validated by the professionals involved in the hospital bill audit service. We found that during billing pre-analysis, auditors make corre...