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Table 3 Variables used to allocate overheads to the final units and products

From: UHC in Morocco: a bottom-up estimation of public hospitals' financing size based on a costing database

General unit

Distribution key (rates)

Directorate of the hospital and its offices

Equivalent full-time (EFT)

Medical services (administration)

EFT of medicals

Nursing services (administration)

EFT of nurses

Reception and information

Number of patients

Financial services

Total expenditures of each unit

Accounting service

Total expenditures of each unit

The billing service

Number of patients

Supply service and stores

The total received amount from each store

Statistic services

Number of patients

Human resources services

Equivalent full-time (EFT)

Space maintenance

M2 (square meters)

Cleaning services

M2 (square meters)

Informatic service

Number of computers

Laundry

Total cleaned weight (Kg)

Catering service

Total number of served meals

Maintenance of equipment

Number of maintenance interventions

Gardening service

M2 (square meters)

Pharmacy (HR and logistics)

Number of distributed items

Electricity bill

M2 (square meters)

Water bill

Number of patients plus HR