Pharmacist Intervention Cost Avoidance (Nesbit Method)
Estimated cost avoidance from pharmacist interventions, by the Nesbit method.
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Example
- Interventions, one per line
- low, 5000, 10 medium, 5000, 4 high, 12000
- Pharmacist time cost, total
- 1200
Result: Estimated cost avoidance: 20,200.00 across 15 interventions; 19,000.00 net of the time cost.
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What you enter
- Interventions, one per line: class (none, very low, low, medium, high), cost of the event averted, count (optional)
- Pharmacist time cost, total (optional)
How this is calculated
Citation
Nesbit method (Nesbit TW, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2001), as restated in Abushanab D, Atchan M, Elajez R, et al. Economic impact of clinical pharmacist interventions in a general tertiary hospital in Qatar. PLoS One 2023;18(6):e0286419. Read the source ↗
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