... per capita was comparable with that of other types of integrated primary care organisations. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Primary care Health care Organizational structure Monitoring Management Costs The organisational centrepiece of the 1997 reforms of the British National Health...

...Livio Garattini; Giovanni Giuliani; Eva Pagano Until recently Italian hospitals had no cost accounting or activity data collection systems, being formally required only to do financial book‐keeping. The cost analysis method presented here might be used to set up detailed and complete hospital cost...

... of the hospital environment in which the health care product is supplied. Concludes that, given the current enthusiasm for finding best practice in health care and the ever‐increasing number of cost‐effectiveness analyses of therapeutic interventions, it seems somewhat contradictory that interventions which cover...

... and seamless care. Examines the costs of PFC by comparing actual with expected costs. Makes managerial, clinical, educational and research implications throughout for staff working in or with PFC units. Criticisms of PFC emerged early in the literature and were directed at its heart. For example, some...

... consideration of full cost recovery to establish prices for hospital services sold and to ensure that available information is employed in assessing external services purchased. Ignoring the important issue of information availability in identifying relevant costs, it is the difficulty in specifying the cost...

...M.A. McNally; R.A.B. Mollan; M.J. Buxton Concern has been expressed that the introduction of a non‐invasive test as a further step in the diagnostic pathway for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) can only increase the expense of detection in this difficult condition. Presents a study and cost analysis...