Out-of-hours primary care. Implications of organisation on costs

BMC Primary Care

Table 3 Costs of the hospital emergency department before and after the establishment of the integrated GP cooperative.

	1999 (before)	2000 (after)	Difference
Personnel^a	€ 1,250,611	€ 1,250,611	€ 0
Administration	€ 25,996	€ 22,770	- € 3,226
Communication	€ 7,453	€ 8,405	+ € 952
Interior	€ 3,078	€ 2,408	- € 670
Medication, bandages, casts, etc	€ 200,675	€ 185,624	- € 15,051
Diagnostics	€ 725,135	€ 726,400	+ € 1,265
Overhead^b	€ 1,380,774	€ 1,380,774	€ 0
Other	14,107	14,254	+ € 147
Total	€ 3,607,830	€ 3,591,247	- € 16,582

^a Staffing of the ED remained unchanged; therefore, costs have been kept the same.
^b Overhead costs have been kept the same

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