Costs of nuclear medicine.
The cost of nuclear medicine procedures in a small department run as part of a general imaging service in the financial year 1984/5, using standard commercial nomenclature and concepts (variable, semi-variable and fixed costs), are reported. The necessity for a standard costing system and the use of overhead absorption rates for all three types of cost are emphasized, and the value is shown of doing enough work to make economic use of the equipment and staff time. Nuclear medicine procedures appear to be comparable in cost to imaging procedures involving fluoroscopy.
Bretland
P M
PM
Department of Radiology, Whittington Hospital, London, UK.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D008131:London; D009684:Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation