title: Total staff costs to implement a decision support system in nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify the direct labor (DL) costs to put in practice a decision support system (DSS) in nursing at the University Hospital of the University of São Paulo (HU-USP).
  
  
  METHODS
  the development of the DSS was mapped in four sub-processes: Conception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition. To calculate the DL, the baseline salary per professional category was added to the five-year additional remuneration, representation fees and social charges, and then divided by the number of hours contracted, resulting in the hour wage/professional, which was multiplied by the time spend on each activity in the sub-processes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the DL cost corresponded to R$ 752,618.56 (100%), R$ 26,000.00 (3.45%) of which were funded by a funding agency, while R$ 726,618.56 (96,55%) came from Hospital and University resources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  considering the total DL cost, 72.1% related to staff wages for the informatics consulting company and 27.9% to the DL of professionals at the HU and the School of Nursing.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valéria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Castilho
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Antônio Fernandes Costa
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernanda Maria Togeiro
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Fugulin
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Heloisa Helena Ciqueto
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Peres
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raquel Rapone
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Gaidzinski
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D011446:Prospective Studies