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Resource use and costs of healthcare and how we measure them

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Measuring resource use in healthcare is a complex area, more than 'counting the cost'.  It spans the range from the micro level of measuring the resources required to deliver a particular treatment, or the costs suffered by patients and their carers, all the way to measuring the costs to society of high incidence diseases.



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