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STUDY OBJECTIVES--Studies estimating the cost of specific illnesses do not generally take into account the fact that health care costs would have been incurred in the absence of the disease of interest. The goal of this study was to develop a method of estimating age specific bas...

This article examines factors accounting for higher costs in urban hospitals as well as their relative contribution to those costs. The costs of urban hospitals are influenced by case mix, wages, competition, the ratio of forecasted to actual admissions, teaching, and the percent...

In public organizations, costs are indicators of their economic efficiency. Different from private companies that seek profits, public service institutions-with their clearly defined social purposes and subsidies- need to evaluate and monitor their costs in order to supply the pu...

OBJECTIVE--To examine the effect on total prescribing costs and prescribing costs for respiratory drugs for practices with at least one general practitioner with a special interest in asthma. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING--General practitioners in England and Wales...

This study aimed to observe the total costs of the staffs training and development programs from a Continuum Educational Center (CEC). With this purpose, the direct and indirect costs of this Center were investigated such as the relationship between the direct and indirect costs ...

The main focus of this thesis is on how cooperatives can minimize both democratic and agency costs. In particular, the thesis examines how differences in the level of heterogeneity and member participation amongst cooperatives affect their management of these costs. The thesis is...

The general objective of this paper is to study the main concepts of joint cost, opportunity costs, incremental costs, its application and representation in the decisions over results of the agricultural industries of rice processing system. The scientific methodology of research...

The main goal of the master dissertation is to verify and to analyze the influence of geometric characteristics of road sections on highway users’ costs, in terms of vehicle operation costs and costs associated to travel time, using the software HDM-4 (Highway Development and Man...

When parents invest heavily in reproduction they commonly suffer significant energetic costs. Parents reduce the long-term fitness implications of these costs through increased foraging and reduced reproductive investment in the future. Similar behavioral modifications might be e...

Variance analysis, an accounting technique, is applied to an eight-component model of hospital costs to determine the contribution each component makes to cost increases. The method is illustrated by application to data on total costs from 1950 to 1973 for all U.S. nongovernmenta...

Drug acquisition costs are only a proportion of the total costs associated with drug therapy. The relevance of these costs are often not appreciated. However, they impact on the Intensive Care Unit via resources and quality of care. Increased indirect care by medical and nursing ...

The paper proposes an alternative general equilibrium formulation of financial asset economies with transactions costs. Transaction costs emerge endogenously at equilibrium and reflect agents decisions of intermediating financial activities at the expense of providing labor servi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the impact of a comprehensive periodic health examination programme on health care utilisation and costs in a working population. DESIGN--A cohort method was used to observe the trends in health care utilisation and costs for a group of local governmen...

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This work describes the development of a software for farm machinery operation cost calculation, once the use of machines and agricultural implements are one of the factors that demand larger operational costs. Those costs are divided in fixed and variable costs. The objective of...

The present work had its objective the aplication of a methodology for the administration of costs in a small clothing industry in the which the control of costs and the need to decrease and/or eliminate inefficient were constant. To achieve the proposed objective, principles for...

Health costs and expenses increase are observed with concern by their managers. Costs knowledge is a fundamental step to hospital management. On hospitals costs composition, consumption material item represents a meaningful parcel. At teaching hospitals, complex organizations, th...

The purpose of the project was to develop a model for predicting costs for potential new HMO subscribers, using available cost data from fiscal year 1985 for current enrollees of a large HMO. Regression analysis of aggregated clinic, referral, and hospital cost data using a log t...

The process of costing clinical biochemistry tests as a component of the commissioning of a unit management budgeting system based on an International Computers Limited (ICL) minicomputer system was examined. Methods of apportioning consumable and labour costs under direct and in...

The costs of egg production and incubation may have a crucial effect on avian reproductive decisions, such as clutch size and the timing of reproduction. We carried out a brood-size enlargement experiment on the great tit (Parus major), in which the birds had to lay and incubate ...

OBJECTIVE: To study the ways in which allocating the risk for behavioral health care expenses between employers and a managed behavioral health organization affects costs and the use of services. DATA SOURCES: Claims from 87 plans that cover mental health and substance abuse serv...