Table 1: Variable costs include repairing and maintenance of mammographic equipment, X-ray film, traveling expenses, stationery, training activities, other activities and other expenses.
Direct costs |
Indirect costs |
Health care resources measurement |
Health care resources: (staffing, consumables, overheads, capital) Other related services: Community services; ambulance services; voluntary services
Costs incurred by patients and their families Inputs to treatments Out-of-pocket expenses |
Time lost from work (production effects) Production effects arise from working in the labour force and housework Indirect costs arise because health care may result in lost production Value of indirect cost is the value of the lost production Measuring resource use in naturally occurring units |
Staffing time (hours, minutes) Consumables (units/amounts consumed) Overheads (units/amounts consumed) Capital (units/amounts consumed |