title: Cost analysis model for hospital programs.
abstract: Student radiographers provide a labor component as a result of their clinical education requirements, which considerably reduces the clinical education sponsor's cost of providing services. The dollar value of the labor component can be determined. A model is presented for cost analysis of the student labor component. The model evaluates student productivity as a function of student competency at various times during program enrollment.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown 26506-8062.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shock
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004526:Efficiency; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical / Q000191:economics*; D013679:Technology, Radiologic / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards