Costs of providing dental services for children in public and private practices.
AUTOR(ES)
Doherty, N
RESUMO
This study compares the costs of providing children's dental services in three practice settings: private practices, public mobile clinics, and public fixed clinics. Some 15,000 children were provided comprehensive dental care over a three-year period. Results indicate that costs per visit and per child were lowest in mobile clinics and highest in private practices. The differential was partially explained by differences in productivity but mostly by the fact that the price of services in public practices represented costs of production, whereas in private practices they represented market values.
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http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1071859Documentos Relacionados
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