What is it about?
Data from the USA is used to demonstrate a cycle in health care cost increases. This same cycle can be observed in the English NHS as a cycle of surplus and deficit
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Why is it important?
Any form of cost cycle implies a recurring series of an effector which causes higher costs
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Part of a far longer series investigating the presence of a presumed infectious outbreak leading to international periods of higher health care activity, deaths and costs, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Do NHS cost pressures follow long-term patterns?, British Journal of Healthcare Management, April 2010, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2010.16.4.47403.
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