adult physical and mental health conditions and associated health care costs in Australia. The analysis utilises … significantly more physical and mental health conditions as adults and incur higher annual health care costs. In addition, we … the understanding of the long run costs of child abuse in Australia. We conclude that prevention child abuse is expected …

pattern of care will change, which will impact on the costs of treatment and on patient outcomes. For example, two of the key …

This brief methods paper explains how to use the NSW Government Health Costs of Care Standards to estimate the cost of … suggested approach for estimating ED costs when mode of separation is known but visit type and triage category are unknown; we …

experience significant complications. External costs per patient, covering patient and escort travel, were $9,948. Overheads … averaged $16,965, and capital costs averaged $887, per patient. Thus, the predicted total cost of running the Unit for 1993 was …

Economic evaluation is the systematic assessment of the costs and consequences of alternative courses of action. In …); the advantages of this approach are that i) prospective, accurate data can be collected on costs and effects and ii … described as a ratio of the costs and effects ? often called the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). The ICER is …

The research evidence on the relationships between patient throughput and costs and outcomes indicate that, for cardiac … throughput in excess of 100 cases per annum. The impression from practice in NSW is that larger units have lower average costs … costs or poorer outcomes. The available research evidence on cardiac surgery suggests that units should be performing at …