Models for costing patient care services, Part 3. Costing operating theatre procedures

This is the third of a series of papers describing the development of costing models for use in the Clinical Information System (CIS) at the Clayton Campus (formerly the Queen Victoria Medical Centre) of the Monash Medical Centre (MMC) in Melbourne. The first two papers in this series described the costing of diagnostic laboratory services and organ imaging services. This paper describes the development of a model for costing operating theatre procedures.