Although not directly costed, the model recognises the economies of scope of providing for these other diseases by incorporating an estimate of workload (beds filled, outpatients treated) attributed to other conditions.
Previous estimates of ED workload in Cape Town have demonstrated that a significant proportion of presenting populations are emergency or urgent in nature, present to the ED outside of normal office hours, involve a large paediatric case mix and are typically walk-in or self-referred [6, 7].
Moreover, given the small fixed bias, it was not surprising that the lactate values from the portable analyzer provided similar estimates of the workload corresponding to the 2.5 and the 4.0 mM/l absolute lactate concentrations.
To estimate the share of workload attributable to the HaH programme, we included in the numerator of the total family doctor contact rate all preventive as well as curative contacts in the practice and at home.
Our estimates of the clinical workload related to each CVD risk category have been inserted in Figure 1.
This study aimed to provide estimates of the GP workload associated with offering symptoms-based ovarian cancer screening.
Some simply consider risk factors alone[ 5], while others include selected cardiovascular treatments[ 1, 6, 7] secondary prevention such as cholesterol lowering treatment[ 8] or estimates of general practice workload [ 9].
Although an inaccurate estimate of the workloads' probability distribution will result in a runtime longer or shorter than desired, the system will still run efficiently.
Once the standard times are estimated and the proportion of workload for the CPs and CPTs is determined, the next important step is to estimate the base FTEs of each staff category required to serve an ACC with a given annual volume of patients.
Alternatively, traces can be synthetically generated based on subscriber estimates of mean or peak workload behaviour.
