Cost drivers of ambulatory physiotherapy episodes of care provided in acute public hospital settings

Australian Journal of Physiotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-21

  Grimmer, Karen ^a   Bowman, Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Episode of care; Health care costs; Outpatients

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONICITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; TIME; TRAVEL;

EID: 0032998368     PISSN: 00049514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-9514(14)60337-8     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Andersen EB (1990): The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 280-302.
2. Beaton G (1989): Marketing attitudes and practices amongst Australian private practitioner physiotherapists. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 35: 41-49.
3. Berryman C, Bell A, Chipchase L, Grimmer K, Hunt S, RhysWilliams A, Ruston S and Townsend W (1997): Testing a clinical indicator of quality performance in managing acute low back pain in manipulative physiotherapy practices in South Australia. Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Manipulative Physiotherapists' Association of Australia. Melbourne, pp. 22-23.
4. Coopers and Lybrand (1998): Outpatient Costing and Classification Study incorporating the Developmental Ambulatory Classification System Evaluation. Adelaide: South Australian Health Commission and Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.
5. Decker J (1995): Application of the ICIDH in survey research on rehabilitation - the emergence of the functional diagnosis. Disability and Rehabilitation 17:195-201.
6. Donabedian A (1990): The Quality of Care: How can it be assessed? In Graham R (Ed.): Quality Assurance in Hospitals. (2nd ed.) Maryland: Aspen Publishers, pp. 20-45.
7. Donaldson C (1990): The state of the art of costing health care for economic evaluation. Community Health Studies 14:341-357.
8. Douglas D, Ram Vemuri S and Jianguo X (1996): Episodes of care: Should we have them? Australian Health Review 19:3-13.
9. Doyle C (1991): How to assess the quality of long term care. Working Paper 14. Fairfield: National Centre for Health Program Evaluation (NH&MRC).
10. Draft Paper on Ambulatory Care Reform (1994): The next steps. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health.
11. Duckett SJ and Jackson T (1993): Casemix classification for outpatient services based on episodes of care. Medical Journal of Australia 158:489-492.
12. Eager K and Hindle D (1994): The Australian Casemix Dictionary. No. 9, National Casemix Education Series Canberra: Department of Human Services and Health.