Abstract

QUESADA RAMOS, Cristina  and  BEISTEGUI ALEJANDRE, Idoia. Economic evaluation of a new model of dressings centralized purchase: the case of the Basque Country. Gerokomos [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.3, pp.118-123. ISSN 1134-928X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1134-928X2014000300007.

Osakidetza-Basque Health Service and the Basque Health Department invested 7 million € in 2009 only in dressings for prevention and treatment of chronic wounds. Interdepartmental working among expert nurses at these products and the Supply Department to conduct a centralized purchase of dressing and products for moisture enviroment in wounds (DPMEW). The aim is to describe the new methodology followed in the last centralized purchase of DPMEW in the Basque Country, and also analyze the economic impact that this has had on expense.

Keywords : Chronic wounds; dressings; centralized pruchase; economic evaluation.

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