Health Information management
Alireza Jabbari; Farimah Rahimi; Shokrolah Salmanzadeh romhormozi; Mehdi Masoudnia
Abstract
Introduction: Hepatitis C can impose various costs on the country's health system, including the cost of the care package provided in the field of health deputies. Therefore, this study was conducted to calculate the cost of providing a health care package including diagnostic-pharmaceutical costs, manpower ...
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Introduction: Hepatitis C can impose various costs on the country's health system, including the cost of the care package provided in the field of health deputies. Therefore, this study was conducted to calculate the cost of providing a health care package including diagnostic-pharmaceutical costs, manpower costs and administrative-support costs in the Hepatitis C Counseling Center of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2019.Methods: The present descriptive study was conducted as a census and cross-sectional study due to the limitations of the research community 238 patients. And the costs of manpower and administration - support of the center have been extracted from the Kurdish cost documents available in the financial management unit of the university.Results: The cost of the care package provided for all clients to the center was equal to 10,563,163,457 and its per capita was 44,383,040 Rials. The share of diagnostic-pharmaceutical costs is 45% and the share of manpower costs and administrative-support costs of the center is equal to 55% of the total costs of the hepatitis C counseling center in 2019.Conclusion: The present study, by determining the costs by pharmaceutical items, imaging services, laboratory services, manpower and administrative-support costs, can provide a clear picture to increase the technical efficiency of available resources to the organization's executives..
