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aiua-6559	Albino, Giuseppe; Albergo, Francesco	Who “apparently” more spends, “in reality” spends less. Spending “a little” more for the rental of the extracorporeal lithotripter can save “a lot” about the days of hospitalization for urinary stones	2016	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4102	175	50	It follows that in 2014 at least 100 days of hospi- talization would be spared, amounting to € 88,200.00; – the rental price per session of lithotripsy is € 1,950.00 plus VAT; the ASL BAT is actually requiring the rental of the extracorporeal lithotripter for 4 sessions per month; – if the ASL BAT would require an additional session per month (the fifth), the supplier company declared that they would consider cheaper to leave the lithotripter on the spot in the Andria Hospital to save the cost of transportation, so making the device avail- able every day of the year; – an additional cost per year would be added ( consid- ering that in August only 2 sessions are performed, the number of extra sessions per year would be 11 x € 1,950.00 = 21,450.00/year) but 100 days of hospi- talization (882 x 100) would be saved because patients with urinary stones could be subjected to extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy already on the day of admission or the next day to their admission, with a net saving of € 66,750.00 (€ 88,200.00 - 21,450.00); – the current number of lithotripsy sessions for year is 46; adding one session a month (except in August) the number of session per year will be increased by 11 and the total number of sessions per year would become 57; – since the lithotripter would remain constantly on site, 100 hospitalization days would be spared, amounting to € 88,200.00, that should be deducted from the expenditure for 57 rental days (€ 111,150.00), result- ing in an overall net expenditure for the ASL of € 22,950.00 equivalent to 11.77 lithotripsy sessions, to the price of € 1,950.00. It has been calculated, for each admission, the number of hospital days to wait for the lithotripsy session, -1 day (minus one day), corresponding to the day when the admission from the emergency department occurred, during which the patient completed the clinical evalua- tion and the examinations necessary for treatment.	cache/aiua-6559.pdf	txt/aiua-6559.txt