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INTRODUCTION:To determine the cost and volume of work implied in providing a parasitological diagnosis when attending immigrants in a referral Tropical Medicine Unit. METHODS:The total number and type of samples, requests processed and parasitology laboratory costs were quantified after attending 1258 immigrants during the period January 1989 to December 2001. Estimation of laboratory workload for the total was made on the basis of results from 748 of these patients. A reference to relative value units (RVU) was established for each of the tests used in the parasitological diagnosis. The evaluation included costs related to disposable material and time spent by technicians and medical staff, but did not include costs related to sample extraction or processing of the test request. Modified indicators from the Catalogue of Microbiology studies of the Valencian Community for the year 2000 were used, establishing the equivalence of 1 RVU as the value of one urine culture 5 2.39 3 (398 pesetas). RESULTS:The overall cost was 99,680.99 3 (16,585,522 pesetas) or 45,934.94 RVU, and the cost per patient was 79.24 3 (13.185 pesetas) or 36.51 URV. The volume of work dedicated to attending immigrants was 9.7% of the total of samples received in the laboratory. CONCLUSIONS:The cost and volume of work involved in attending this group of patients in the parasitology laboratory was not high.
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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clinjournal_title
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinicaauthors
Turrientes Mdel C,Huerga H,López-Vélez Rsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-04-01 00:00:00pages
188-92issue
4eissn
0213-005Xissn
1578-1852pii
13045449journal_volume
21pub_type
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