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The actual cost of clinical negligence in the NHS

British Journal of Nursing, 2022
John Tingle, Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, considers the debate around reform of the system for clinical negligence claims
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Transfer Pricing Based on Actual Cost

Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2003
This paper analyzes a simple transfer-pricing policy based on the actual cost of production. I show that the performance of actual cost-based transfer pricing can be improved by using an additive markup above the unit production cost. I also show that this additive policy dominates an entire class of alternative markup policies, including the more ...
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“Actual Cost” Defined

Journal AWWA, 1992
The town of Southbridge is a municipal corporation. The Southbridge Water Supply Company (SWSC) began furnishing water to Southbridge in 1881 and later to Charlton and Sturbridge. Its real estate included reservoirs in Southbridge, Mass., Sturbridge, Mass., and Woodstock, Conn.
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Actual Cost Should Be Based on Original Cost

Journal AWWA, 1985
The “actual cost” of the franchise, property, rights, and privileges of a water company should be based on the original cost and not include the cost of property contributed to the company, according to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
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Actual costs of cancer drugs in 15 European countries

The Lancet Oncology, 2016
The financial sustainability of cancer services as part of national health systems is a major challenge;1 oncology consumes up to 30% of total hospital expenditure and the amount spent on expensive cancer drugs is rising fast.2 In view of the pipeline of new drugs, these costs are likely to continue to grow.3 Apart from the risk of unequal access ...
van Harten, Willem H., Wind, Anke, de Paoli, Paolo, Saghatchian, Mahasti, Oberst, Simon   +4 more
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Developing actual costs of patient services

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1993
Analysis of the costs of diagnostic and therapeutic services provided to patients yields a multitude of useful results: a sophisticated tool to assist in streamlining the underlying processes of patient care; an improved understanding of the nature and extent of case-based resource requirements; maximization of existing patient information collected ...
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An Internet Cost Model, Assignment of Costs Based on Actual Network Use

International Journal of Web Portals, 2012
In a transforming, complex, and innovating telecommunications industry with evolving business models, providers have to resolve how the pricing of their services in a context with many unknowns and few equations. This paper proposes a cost assignment model based on differentiating the set of required services a user consumes in a granular network ...
Miguel Ramírez, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Josep Maria Monguet, Christian Muñoz   +3 more
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Perceived and actual costs of operating cars

Transportation, 1978
The perception that drivers have of car operating costs is an important factor in determining modal split characteristics. Theoretical figures derived from discriminant analysis models suggest that drivers perceive only petrol costs, but this has not been cor roborated by detailed surveys.
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What is the Actual Cost of Neonatal Intensive Care?

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1991
Health care providers are increasingly concerned about the rising costs of the total health care system, which is now approaching 10–12% of the gross national product (GNP). The long-term decrease in birth rates and the prolonged mean length of life of the population shifts the age pyramid to older ages, bringing a higher demand for health care at ...
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Predicted and actual costs from individual bank mergers

Journal of Economics and Business, 2004
Abstract Using translog, Fourier, and cubic spline cost functions, we predict scale-related cost effects from 22 individual mergers among Spanish savings banks over 1986–2000. Our individual predictions are as good as those made by merger participants themselves since they, and we, only correctly predict the sign change one-third of the time.
Santiago Carbó Valverde, David B. Humphrey   +1 more
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