title: Patients' and health-care professionals' awareness of cost: a multicentre survey.
abstract: Delivering cost-effective health care within the constraints of public funding is the goal of the NHS. In this study 248 health-care professionals and patients across six different hospitals were surveyed to ascertain their cost awareness. Cost awareness was poor across all groups.
authors.affiliation: Specialty Trainee Year 5 in the Department of General Surgery, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe HP11 2TT.
authors.forename: Gijs I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: van Boxel
authors.affiliation: Academic Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University College London, London.
authors.forename: Bernard H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: van Duren
authors.affiliation: Specialty Trainee Year 4 in the Department of Paediatrics, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe.
authors.forename: Elizabeth-Jane
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: van Boxel
authors.affiliation: Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist in the Department of Paediatrics, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton.
authors.forename: Rodney
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.affiliation: PhD Student and Associate Tutor in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.affiliation: Consultant in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery in the Department of General Surgery, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe.
authors.forename: Shaun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Appleton
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001364:Awareness; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom