Sentence examples for normative cost from inspiring English sources

The model produces the actual costs of the year of survey, the normative cost of the same year and prediction for actual and normative costs for future years.

Normative cost: The normative cost of standard treatment guidelines for each KEPH activities was derived from the optimal medical supplies needed to treat the condition and staff time required for diagnosing, treating and nursing patients based on the recommendations of the expect committee under the wings of the Ministry of Health.

Where there is no established budget an alternative is to build up resource requirements by looking at individual services based on epidemiological data and the normative cost of treatment [ 10].

The higher personnel cost proportion could be due to higher salaries in Vietnam; the lower hospital drugs and supplies cost could be linked to the fact that actual costs were studied and not the normative cost of what health services should cost according to a defined clinical pathway, such as in our DR Congo study.

AM & PV developed the plan for normative costing and undertook initial interviews.

HF & DD assisted in model development and led the normative costing exercise.

The next stage of the normative costing work will be to incorporate the costs of major non-communicable diseases into the costing methodology.

Section two, describes the methods used to establish the normative costs of the package and the production of context specific scenarios.

A large scale actual cost study is currently underway and it is intended that these normative costs will be compared with the results of the actual costing to test whether these assumptions are correct.

Again, the salary proportion mirrors our DR Congo study, but the medical supplies and drugs at district hospital level was considerably higher in DR Congo – again, most likely due to the difference between evaluating actual costs of services provided vs. evaluating normative model costs based on intervention algorithms.

A non-normative costing-based calculation as in the U.S. ("cost outliers" [47]) or a specific case-mix for each care day (Victoria, Australia [48]) might be a solution for upper and lower trim points, also embracing rare DRGs.