Determinación del costo del cultivo y antibiograma del urocultivo en el laboratorio de análisis bioquímicos y bacteriológicos

Abstract

The present research is focused on the analysis of the cost of urine culture and antibiogram of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Bacteriological Analysis of the Technical University of Ambato performed in the automated equipment Vitek 2 compact. The research has a focus on the economic field since the laboratory needed the analysis of the financial field to obtain the value of such examination, in this work the direct and indirect costs were calculated to obtain the value of the urine culture. The analysis of the cost of the urine culture gave a value of $26.62 dollars. The average values for the average direct laboratory costs were $24.80, the average indirect laboratory cost $0.80 and the average indirect institutional cost $0.012. In addition, a field investigation was carried out with the costs and the elaboration of the examination of 28 other laboratories in the provinces of Tungurahua that use similar processing systems but mostly manual, and in this way the unit price of the culture and antibiogram of urine was compared, so it was evidenced that there are prices in the market from 9 dollars to 28 dollars. There is a significant difference between the cost of the local market and the result of the research, since the laboratories perform the test manually and the research performs it in an automated equipment with 98% confidence and in the shortest time.