Development of a practical costing method for hospitals

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-224

  Cao, Pengyu ^a   Toyabe, Shin Ichi ^a   Akazawa, Kouhei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Costing accuracy; Medical costs; Simplified cost accounting; Volume based costing

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRIVER; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING;

ACCOUNTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ALLOCATION; COST CONTROL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 33644530411     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.208.213     Document Type: Article

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