title: Forecasting: a cost control tool for health care managers.
abstract: Adapting the appropriate forecasting technique to a health care environment is essential for cost control. As the Chapel Hill experience shows, forecasting is within everyone's reach and can successfully reduce costs.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D005544:Forecasting; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009657:North Carolina; D013223:Statistics as Topic