Can improving quality decrease hospital costs?

Can improving quality decrease hospital costs?

PURPOSE To determine whether the concept of 'cost of quality' and the techniques used for its study in the industrial sector are also applicable to hospitals. DATA SOURCES We undertook a systematic review of the literature published since 1992 (five electronic databases and a manual search) using keywords relating to quality of health care and costs. STUDY SELECTION We selected all articles...

Can disease management reduce health care costs by improving quality?

Disease management (DM) promises to achieve cost savings by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. During the past decade the Permanente Medical Group in Northern California has implemented extensive DM programs. Examining quality indicators, utilization, and costs for 1996-2002 for adults with four conditions, we find evidence of substantial quality improvement but not cost saving...

Immunization of healthcare personnel can increase safety and decrease costs.

1 Immunization of healthcare personnel can increase safety and decrease costs Personnel who contract vaccine-preventable illnesses not only expose vulnerable patients to diseases but also may miss work to care for themselves or sick relatives. Controlling outbreaks costs money and can drain hospitals of important resources. In 1993, two pertussis outbreaks at Children’s Hospital Medical Center ...

Hospital quality and costs: evidence from England

Data sharing needed to increase quality and decrease costs.

tronic systems must talk with each other or the whole process falls apart. the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality collaborative is a program of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin that received an innovation award from centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve medication management for the people of Wisconsin. the special article in this issue of the WMJ describes the project and its goals and ...