Investigating the Use of Human Albumin in a Non-Teaching Hospital in Iran

Abstract

Albumin is an expensive drug which imposes relatively high cost on the health care system. Doing ABC analysis in Shahid Motahari Hospital, it was revealed that albumin is categorized in class A. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the pattern of albumin use and the physiciansʹ adherence to evidenced-based albumin guidelines in this large general non-teaching hospital in Shiraz, Iran.