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Objective To execute medical equipment cost-benefit analysis to meet the requirements for operation state analysis and evaluation during precision management.Methods The data were collected on CT, MR, DR, DSA, ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, clinical laboratory devices, endoscope set and etc. The evaluation indexes such as annual benefit, cost-profit ratio,rate of return on investment and investment payback period were calculated with a year as the calculating unit.Results When cost-profit ratio was used to evaluate the benefit,clinical laboratory devices and cardiac interventional DSA behaved the most excellent in all the equipment, CT, PET-CT, DR and ultrasonic diagnostic set gained acceptable results, while the radiology interventional DSA, gastrointestinal endoscope set and MR had the results not so satisfactory. Clinical laboratory and DSA devices had high operation costs, and it's suggested that cost control had to be implemented during operation. Conclusion The cost-benefit analysis of medical equipment can provide scientific basis for medical equipment purchasing and operation analysis.
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Objetivo: determinar la calidad metodológica de las evaluaciones económicas completas publicadas en revistas médicas cubanas. Métodos: estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal en 21 artículos, declarados por su autores como evaluaciones económicas completas, publicados entre 1999 y 2014 en 47 revistas médicas cubanas reconocidas por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente. A todos se les aplicó una guía de evaluación que incluyó: año de publicación, revista, objetivo, problema, opciones, horizonte temporal, perspectiva, costo, efectos sobre la salud y cálculo de las razones costo/efectividad. Resultados: los artículos se concentraron en ocho revistas. La mayor cantidad está en la Revista Cubana de Farmacia. Le siguieron en importancia la Revista Cubana de Salud Pública y MEDISAN. Ninguno de los aspectos estaba correctamente tratado en más de 80 por ciento de los trabajos revisados. Los resultados más desfavorables estaban en la declaración de la perspectiva, presente en menos de 20 por ciento de los trabajos y el análisis de sensibilidad en menos de 30 por ciento. Menos de la mitad de los trabajos abordaron adecuadamente la presentación del problema de investigación, los objetivos, el horizonte temporal, los costos y la razón costo efectividad incremental. No se encontró ningún artículo en los últimos tres años. Conclusiones: son escasas las evaluaciones económicas publicadas. La mayoría tiene limitaciones metodológicas. Se observa insuficiente desarrollo de esta temática en el país y apunta hacia la importancia de continuar insistiendo en la divulgación de los aspectos metodológicos básicos de estas evaluaciones tanto para investigadores como para revisores y editores de revistas científicas(AU)
Objective: to determine the methodical quality of complete economic evaluations published in Cuban medical journals from 1999 to 2014. Methods: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of articles classified by their authors as complete economic evaluations and published from 1999 to 2014 in 47 Cuban medical journals authorized by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. The applied evaluation guide included year of publication, journal, objective, problem, options, time frame, prospects, cost, health effects and estimation of the cost/effectiveness ratio. Results: twenty one papers were found, but in the last three years no paper has been published. These papers were mainly published in eight journals, being the first Revista Cubana de Farmacia, followed by Revista Cubana de Salud Publica and MEDISAN. None of the aspects was correctly addressed in over 80 percent of revised papers. The worst results were found in statement of perspective present in less than 20 percent of papers in addition to sensitivity analysis in less than 30 percent of them. Almost 50 of papers adequately dealt with the submission of research problems, objectives, time frame, costs and the incremental cost/effectiveness ratio. Conclusions: published economic evaluations are still scanty and most of them exhibit methodological faults. There is insufficient development in this area nationwide, which points to the importance of insisting once again on the dissemination of the basic methodological aspects of these evaluations aimed at researchers who act as reviewers and as editors of scientific journals(AU)
