Methods of evaluating dental care costs in the Swedish public dental health care sector

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 160-165

  Oscarson, Nils ^a   Källestal, Carina ^a   Karlsson, Göran ^b  

^a Dept of Epidemiol and Pub Health ^*  (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Dentistry; Preventive dentistry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIST; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SWEDEN; TIME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL ASSISTANTS; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HYGIENISTS; DENTISTS; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEES, DENTAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032084241     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1998.tb01944.x     Document Type: Article

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