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Accommodating adults with severe and profound mental handicaps: comparative revenue costs

Felce, David John 1986. Accommodating adults with severe and profound mental handicaps: comparative revenue costs. Journal of the British Institute of Mental Handicap (APEX) 14 (3) , pp. 104-107. 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1986.tb00356.x

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Abstract

The revenue costs of two small houses were compared with those of five larger, local, community-based units and two mental handicap hospitals. The community units were cheaper than the small houses and the hospitals, despite serving people with more severe handicaps. The small houses were slightly more expensive than the hospitals but, under certain assumptions, could be viewed as incurring equivalent costs. Clear evidence of economies of scale was not found except in the comparison between the community units and the small houses. However, other research has shown that small houses can provide a superior quality of care.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISSN: 0261-9997
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2017 04:15
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85739

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