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Cost of transportation to a psychogeriatric day hospital: minibus versus taxi service
Author(s) -
Shah Ajit
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199606)11:6<555::aid-gps315>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , service (business) , business , operations management , transport engineering , medicine , geography , engineering , marketing , archaeology
The costs of transporting psychogeriatric day patients using the hospital‐owned minibus and privately tendered taxi service are compared. Both services were estimated to have similar costs. The results are discussed in the context of methodological difficulties and the advantage of the minibus and the taxi services.