title: Cost-benefit analysis: patient care at neurological intensive care unit.
abstract: Modern quality definition relies on patient centeredness and on patient needs for particular services, continuous control of the service provided, complete service quality management, and setting quality indicators as the health service endpoints. The health service provided to the patient has certain costs. Thus, one can ask the following: "To what extent does the increasing cost of patient care with changes in elimination improve the quality of health care and what costs are justifiable?" As stroke is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Europe and worldwide, attention has been increasingly focused on stroke prevention and providing quality care for stroke patients. One of the most common medical/nursing problems in these patients is change in elimination, which additionally affects their mental health.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Department of Neurology, Referral Center for Neurovascular Disorders of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia. Ikopacevic@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lenka
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kopacević
authors.affiliation: Clinical Department of Neurology, Referral Center for Neurovascular Disorders of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Strapac
authors.affiliation: Zagreb-Centar Primary Health Center, Zagreb, Coratia.
authors.forename: Vesna Bozan
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Mihelcić
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003422:Critical Care / Q000191:economics*; D064648:Critical Care Nursing / Q000191:economics; D017523:Croatia; D041382:Diapers, Adult / Q000191:economics; D005242:Fecal Incontinence / Q000191:economics* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007847:Laundry Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000191:economics* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy