A Cost Analysis Study of Inpatient Care Services at a Large Tertiary Care Teaching Institute at New Delhi, India

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ABSTRACT A study was carried out at a large tertiary care teaching institute at Delhi to estimate the cost of medicines and surgical consumables to the hospital and the out of cost to in-patients, during the course of their stay at the hospital. The study was conducted in the year 2007 and a total of 174 cases were included in the study fulfilling the selection criteria. The total length of stay of all the patients under study was 2235 days. Total average cost incurred on patient care in the indoor unit under study thus calculated came out to be 20B9 1861.31 per bed per day. The final average figure arrived at for cost to the hospital/ bed/day in this study is 20B9 834.74 and cost to the patient/day came to 20B9 1026.57 on account of the Medicines, Surgical consumables and Crystalloids. The maximum total cost toward patient care came to 20B9 10958.84 for ICU. Whereas the lowest cost of 20B9 175.46 was for the psychiatry. This study helped us to know that how much it costs in terms of cost per bed per day to treat in-patients in selected specialties and in a general ICU as well. How to cite this article Harsvardhan R, Arya SK, Singh IB, Sharma DK. A Cost Analysis Study of Inpatient Care Services at a Large Tertiary Care Teaching Institute at New Delhi, India. Int J Res Foundation Hosp Healthc Adm 2014;2(1):15-18.