Cost Awareness of Common Supplies Is Severely Impaired Among All Members of the Surgical Team.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased health care spending concerns have generated interest in reducing operating room (OR) costs, but the cost awareness of the surgical team selecting intraoperative supplies remains unclear. This work characterizes knowledge of supply cost among surgeons and OR staff in a large academic hospital and seeks to examine the role of experience and training with regards to cost insight.

Methods

This work is a cross-sectional study of surgeons, trainees, nurses, and surgical technicians (n = 372) across all surgical specialties at a large academic hospital. Participants completed a survey reporting frequency of use and estimated cost for 11 common surgical supplies as well as opinions on access to cost information in the OR. Cost estimation error was expressed as

SUBMITTER: Sorber R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7723333 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature