Cost considerations in the use of anaesthetic drugs.
Measuring the direct drug costs of an anaesthetic is relatively easy, but assessing increased expenditure in relation to clinical benefits and indirect costs is not. This review examines a number of papers that have attempted just such a task and tries to illustrate some of the difficulties inherent in this important area of cost-effective analyses.
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Bruce T W
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North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK.
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