Itemised costs were based on investigator provided hospital data.
Table 1 shows the costs of selected common investigations, treatments and wards for patients with stroke, based on hospital supplied itemised costs.
The cost of TST testing was investigated by eliciting costs from five private medical service providers, median £65 per test, range £45 £75, and by using estimated itemised costs from Occupational Health and Safety Service, University of Cambridge (supplementary, table 1V), total cost £48.53.
In a subgroup analysis, we will focus on teaching hospitals because we are able to obtain individual patient costs from their business units, with admission costs broken down into direct and overhead itemised costs (eg, medical, nursing, theatre, allied health).
Lead investigators at participating hospitals were also asked to complete a site questionnaire detailing specific hospital information and unit costs of medications, investigations, procedures, and ward costs, at their hospital to ascertain a list of itemised cost for their facility.
Itemised cost evaluation of all other treatment costs was not feasible due to the retrospective study design.
As patients are generally given an invoice of itemised hospital costs at the time of hospital discharge, these data were expected to be well recorded and to provide a reliable outcome measure.
The itemised intervention costs are listed in online supplementary tables.
Asked once to itemise the cost of a trawler stuffed with surveillance gear, sold to the agency for $500,000, he quoted $250,000 for "product" and $250,000 for "service".
Also to Hertz whose High Wycombe franchise used a biro to alter the payable excess from £1,000 to £3,000 then claimed that a scrape to a hire vehicle cost precisely that sum to repair, although no itemised bill could be produced.
It is typically charged monthly and should be itemised.
