• Healthcare spending continues to grow in Canada; it is expected to surpass the $200 billion milestone for the first time in 2011. However, the speed of growth is the slowest in the last 15 years. • Canada is forecast to spend about $7 billion more on healthcare in 2011 than in 2010— or about $150 more per citizen (about $5800 per capita). This represents an estimated annual growth rate of 4%,...

BACKGROUND Little is known about differences in costs to provide anesthesia care for different surgical subspecialties and which factors influence the subspecialty-specific costs. METHODS In this retrospective study, the authors determined main cost components (preoperative visit, intraoperative personnel costs, material and pharmaceutical costs, and others) for 10,843 consecutive anesthesia ...

Health care, an organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community, is one of the most important aspects of providing quality services to the needy individuals. Cost of healthcare depends on (a) Disease condition; (b) Coverage by insurance; (c) Medical service provider; and (d) Healthcare infrastructure. Patients in need of critical medical care and continuous monitoring by speci...

BACKGROUND AND AIM A significant social and economic burden inflicts by road traffic injuries (RTIs). We aimed to use Bayesian model, to present the precise method, and to estimate the cost of RTIs in Iran in 2013. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study on costs resulting from traffic injuries, 846 people per road user were randomly selected and investigated during 3 months (1st Sep...

The defect cost analysis investigates the various contributions of conflicting quality objectives towards the total cost, using a probabilistic approach estimating the total effect of defects on product quality cost. Two cost drivers occur in every design, material cost and processing cost. The additional cost due to defect parts is usually seen only as one cost driver, however, it can be broke...

This paper focuses on the amount of diesel consumption as one of the non-renewable energy sources consumed by the agricultural machinery and water pumps in wheat and corn farms in Dire County,Kermanshah Province, Iran. The population of the study was determined by Bartlett table. Stratified random sampling method and census was used for the selection of respondents. The sample was composed of 2...