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  • Title: [Costs and prices of laboratory services].
    Author: Magid E, Bartels PD, Brandslund I, Christensen MS, Fahrenkrug J, Hørder M, Olsen H, Pedersen KO, Riber E.
    Journal: Ugeskr Laeger; 1991 Sep 23; 153(39):2730-3. PubMed ID: 1949283.
    Abstract:
    Cost accounting is performed in private and public laboratories. Guidelines for these activities are required and with this objective in mind, the Board of the Danish Society of Clinical Chemistry commissioned a working group to produce a position paper which is presented now in this report. The report discusses the objectives, the principles and the general requirements for cost accounting. The significance of information on costs for the clinicians' rational use of the laboratory is also illustrated. The working group points out that prerequisites for lucid and appropriate costing guidelines are clarification of which purposes information on costs are meant to serve, identification of the relevant cost centers and quality assurance of laboratory services to a defined extent. It is common practice to express laboratory costs as costs per test. The report advocates calculation of the cost per patient contact, i.e. the overall costs for laboratory service in a given investigative situation.
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