Time-driven activity-based costing offers an innovative approach to measure costs across surgical episodes using only time and unit cost estimates.
This commentary reports on an innovative approach for measuring costs across entire episodes of care, time-driven activity-based costing, which requires estimates of only 2 factors: the quantity of time and the cost per unit of each resource used to treat patients.
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