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Costing in Primary Care—is the truth out there?

Author(s) -

David Kernick

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

family practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955

H-Index - 100

eISSN - 1460-2229

pISSN - 0263-2136

DOI - 10.1093/fampra/cmi012

Subject(s) - activity based costing , medicine , valuation (finance) , primary care , resource based relative value scale , medical costs , resource use , family medicine , nursing , actuarial science , accounting , health care , environmental resource management , economics , economic growth

In this edition of Family Practice, Beale et al.,1 estimate the annual medical, nursing and administration costs in two general practices as a function of patient age, sex and Council Tax valuation band used as a surrogate marker of socio-economic status. They report that these costs increase with age and reducing tax valuation band and conclude that costing exercises are difficult but important for NHS planning and resource allocation. How relevant are these claims?

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