- P Bak: Den Medicinske Forskningsenhed, Ringkøbing Amt, Ringkøbing Sygehus.
This article is based on a system of information at hospital and departmental level (clinical-economical method of analysis). The method and its employment in planning adjustments to the increasing requirements have been reviewed in previous articles. The analysis may also be employed for description of the expenses involved in admission of various patients groups, one of the objects being review of the employment of resources in departments and hospitals and their relationships to the composition of the patients populations involved. Some of the results of description of the expenses from Ringkøbing Hospital in 1988 are demonstrated.