Sentence examples for cost blocks from inspiring English sources
There was a negative balance without including these cost blocks, which highlights the importance of individual funding for Intensive Care.
Alternatives such as cost blocks proposed Edbrooke and colleges [ 17, 24, 33, 55], cost analysis based on the therapeutic score [ 16, 44, 56- 58] or cost prediction models [ 59] might be more applicable in daily practice.
In Part 2, we conducted cost data collection and analysis based on the Cost Block Method [ 1].
Data were analysed for the financial year 2003 2004 relating to all 80 critical care units in the Cost Block programme.
User charges and high direct cost blocked the access of many rural residents for lack of sufficient income to purchase basic health care when needed.
Twenty-one intensive care units in this study (30%) contributed data to the Cost Block Programme for the financial year 2000 2001.
Estimates of nursing cost per patient-day calculated using this method were entered into the cost block calculations in place of the average nurse cost derived from the annual nurse cost.
Although the Cost Block Programme collected data for a different time period and using a different configuration of units, the similarity between the mean costs per patient day is striking, in particular, the costs of consumables and clinical support services.
The study by Hibbert et al [ 33] had wider coverage of resources with respect to professionals allied to medicine and an in-built allowance for capital equipment, which may be responsible for a slightly higher mean costs per day (£1302, 2003 price year) compared to £1028 (2001 price year, £1119 inflated to 2003 price year) for the Cost Block Programme.
Individual districts receive fewer of the benefits of a larger metropolitan population (jobs and taxes) than their costs (blocked views and congested streets).
He is one of the most limpet-like batsmen in cricket, grimly holding onto his wicket at all costs; blocking, nudging and nurdling for hours days at a time.
