Cost Efficient Vial Combination

Version 4.1

This XSL stylesheet calculates the price of the most cost efficient vial combination. It is the final stage of the transformations needed to perform the calculation.

The source document is the result of the grouping part of the transformation. See also vial-combo-group.xsl

The result document is an XML description of the DPDA and a sample vial combination that was used to calculate the price. NB. The given vial combination is only used for the price calculation and is not indicative of what vial combination should be used to dispense the infusion. Also, only a single vial combination is included; other vial combinations may give the same DPDA, including use of vials from different manufacturers.

In the stylesheet comments, PUOMP is short for "Per Unit-Of-Measure Price".

Parameters

Parameter: "dosage"

Default value: "0"

The amount of drug to be dispensed.

Parameter: "price-type"

Default value: ""reimbursement""

Which set of price values to use. Permitted values are "reimbursement" (default) or "manufacturer".

Parameter: "verbose"

Default value: ""none""

How chatty to be. Value may be "none" (default), "informational" or "extremely" (debugging).

Revision History

Version Release date Changes
4.1 22 April 2013 Update pipeline.
4.0 20 December 2011 Implement algorithm version 8.
3.2 19 October 2011 Changed price and content to TPUU/vial values.
3.1 01 August 2011 Fixed mis-spellings of 'infusible'
3.0 03 May 2011 Implement version 7 of algorithm specification.
2.1.1 03 March 2011 Fixed bug in C2 report.
2.1 04 February 2011 Fixed fees for DPMQ.
2.0 19 January 2011 Updated for use with PBS XML v2.4.
1.0 23 July 2010 Initial version.