Dementia is a major cause of dependency and disability among older persons, and imposes huge economic burdens. Only a few cost-of-illness studies for dementia have been carried out in middle and low-income countries. ...

Background: Hospitals must have management tools that allow them to fulfil all their requirements with the allocated resources. Aim: To evaluate the number of bed-days according to the discharge diagnosis in a High Complexity ...

In view of legal requirements that aim at improving quality of cost information by all federal departments and the complexity of calculating costs in public institutions, the present study investigated process of ...

BackgroundThe aim of this study is to a propose a standardized methodology to identify a list of cost objects that can be used by any ED to compute costs considering that the resulting data must facilitate unit management ...

The costing system is, in essence, a system of information and support for decisionmaking. The various approaches continue to raise some questions, in particular as to the choice of costing system to be applied. The ...

We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...

We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...

With the significant increase in competitiveness, currently, costs become highly relevant to decisions making in a company. In an acrylic sheet transformation industry in which its products are customized and made-to-order, ...

In Chile, the use of costing systems in the public sector is limited. The Ministry of Health requires hospitals to manage themselves with the aim of decentralizing health care services and increasing their quality. However, ...