Analysing actual prices of medical products: a cross-sectional survey of Dutch hospitals

Objectives To assess whether there is a difference between the net prices of medical products used by Dutch hospitals and, if there is, how this difference can be explained. Design Cross-sectional self-administered electronic survey. Setting We surveyed the prices paid for 17 commonly used medical products, such as pacemakers, gloves and stents in 38 Dutch hospitals (including general, specialised and academic hospitals) in 2017. Hospitals voluntarily and anonymously provided these data and received a personalised free benchmark tool in return. This tool provides information about the variance... Mehr ...