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Cost awareness on the part of health professionals

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Gladness Dakalo Nethathe

Abstract


Data describing SA healthcare practitioners’ awareness of costs are lacking, and availability of such information may aid educators and other decision-makers in improving strategies aimed at cost-awareness training. 


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Gladness Dakalo Nethathe, Intensive Care Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa; Division of Critical Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Keywords

Health care; Costs; Awareness of cost; Health expenditure

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South African Medical Journal 2015;105(8):618. DOI:10.7196/SAMJnew.7810

Article History

Date submitted: 2015-02-14
Date published: 2015-09-21

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