In the United States, he found, a similar service could cost $50 or more per hour.
Physicians spent more time per service during preventive care visits discussing cholesterol, exercise, and blood pressure than during chronic care visits.
Other KPIs can be "variable" and more observations per service delivery are needed, even if there are no prescriptions for the minimum number as described for questionnaires.
It will require moving more doctors from fee-per-service to salaries, more collaborative care, better electronic sharing of patient information, better controls on in-hospital infections.
Our study results indicate that rural health care facilities are - on average - less staff intensive than urban facilities, and private-for-profit institutions attract more professional staff per service unit than government or faith-based/NGO institutions.
The commission found that nonprofit hospitals facing the least financial pressure, those with high non-Medicare profits, spent more per unit of service.
"Increasing energy end-use efficiency — technologically providing more desired service per unit of delivered energy consumed — is generally the largest, least expensive, most benign, most quickly deployable, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services," the Rocky Mountain Institute's chief executive and founder, Amory Lovins, wrote in 2005.
The national social-services inspectorate found that Liverpool spends 50% more per resident on social services than neighbouring Knowsley, which is almost as poor, and yet offers a lower standard of care.
But what these figures mean is that even though the company is losing subscribers, Dish's remaining customers are paying more per month for their service.
