title: [Taxicabs for patient transport to national hospitals].
abstract: The use of taxis to transport patients to and from the Norwegian Radium Hospital has been studied. 36% of the patients travelled by taxi. This frequency gives an estimated 70,000 trips by taxi annually at a cost of NOK 60 million for four national hospitals in Oslo. Since at present most of the patients travel one in a taxi. There seems to be a large potential for reducing costs.
authors.affiliation: Onkologisk avdeling, Det Norske Radiumhospital, Oslo.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hannisdal
mesh_terms: D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D009664:Norway; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000191:economics*