Developing actual costs of patient services: the University of Alberta Hospitals.
Analysis of the costs of diagnostic and therapeutic services provided to patients yields a multitude of useful results: a sophisticated tool to assist in streamlining the underlying processes of patient care; an improved understanding of the nature and extent of case-based resource requirements; maximization of existing patient information collected through various feeder systems; a key step in the direction of measuring quality and the cost of quality, when linked to patient outcomes realization of the strategic significance of information management in today's complex, data-intensive health industry.
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University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Canada.
D000416:Alberta; D003361:Cost Allocation / Q000379:methods*; D003625:Data Collection; D003954:Diagnostic Services / Q000191:economics; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics*; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000191:economics; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics