A cost analysis of a nurse-managed, voluntary community health clinic.
Nurse-managed, voluntary community health centers are thought to represent cost-effective means of providing healthcare to the medically indigent. A cost analysis of a community healthcare clinic indicates that the cost of a clinic visit may be more expensive than the cost of a community physician visit when all costs (real and donated) are included. Increasing the number of patients seen per hour may be necessary to achieve more cost-effective delivery.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005251:Fees, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008489:Medical Indigency; D008875:Middle Aged; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009819:Office Visits / Q000191:economics; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics; D014838:Volunteers / Q000458:organization & administration; D000078329:Workforce