This article describes a study of the costs of a pilot telemedicine chronic wound consultation clinic. Cost minimization analysis is the technique used to examine the costs of the clinic. The components of cost analysis include the fixed costs of personnel and equipment and the indirect costs of...

Providing human service through competitive markets is inherently problematic. On one hand, quality care is critical; unsatisfactory human service greatly influences people’s quality of life. On the other hand, profit for human service providers is essential for sustainable service provision....

Objectives: To introduce a health-related quality of life measure for home care and institutional longtermcare settings based on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2).Methods: Health attributes of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) were identified, and...