Raimondo, in her first year as state treasurer, defended the plan saying it would avoid exposing the state to additional pension costs, ward off the potential bankruptcy of the pension system and prevent potential tax hikes and service cuts to local governments.
Of the variable costs, ward nursing accounted for 34% and ward medical 18%.
Four partial cost factors have been introduced in order to represent the advantage of an assignment: affinity costs, ward occupancy, change of ward occupancy, and assignment delay.
Aspects of an assignment benefit are represented by cost factors: affinity costs, ward occupancy, change of ward occupancy, and assignment delay.
These cost codes estimate only direct in-hospital costs (ward medical/nursing, non clinical salaries, pathology, imaging, allied, pharmacy, critical care, operating rooms, emergency department costs, supplies, special suites, prosthesis, oncost, hotel costs, depreciation and overhead costs) [ 14].
The medication costs and ward costs were therefore the main cost drivers in the inpatient management of FN.
The hospital costs were calculated by summing all the items enumerated in the hospital discharge summary, including operation-associated costs and ward costs.
Similarly the cost for ward overheads was not included as the wards remained fully functional throughout the study period and were not affected by the intervention.
The estimation for the year 2014 of total annual cost per ward for all conflict was €182,616 and €267,069 for containment based on updated costs from 2005.
The total cost per ward estimated for the year 2014 of all conflictive behavior was €182,616 while the total national cost was 91 million euros.
