title: Costs of health care: experience of one department of rheumatology.
abstract: Little or no information exists about the costs of providing services in the National Health Service. A study was commissioned to measure the costs of running the department of rheumatology in Cornwall. The results emphasised the relative cheapness of outpatient care compared with inpatient care.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004180:Direct Service Costs; D004739:England; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007297:Inpatients; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000191:economics*; D013222:State Medicine