Clinical guidelines---the hidden costs

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?

Clinician dependent costs are the costs of care that are under the discretion of the healthcare provider. These costs include the costs of drugs, tests and investigations, and discretionary outpatient visits and impatient stays. The purpose of this review was to summarize recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can chang...

The Hidden Costs of Control

We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principalagent game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance requirement before the agent chooses a productive activity. Our results show that control entails hidden costs since most agents reduce their performance as a response to the principals controlling decision. Overall, the eff...

Quality Costs in Clinical Laboratory

Introduction: The concept quality cost for all clinical laboratories perform routine and specialized tests of any size and scope has many applications. Familiarity of managers and employees of clinical laboratories with quality cost concept prevent wasted resources and offers laboratory services with high quality to physicians, patients, and other internal and external customers with reasonable...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Avoiding the hidden costs of computer conversions.

T most important aspect of computerization is “planning.” It is as important to plan for the actual transfer of data from a manual billing system to computer (computer conversion) as it is to plan for the purchase of a computer system for your business. With careful planning, both expected costs and unforseen costs of converting to the computer system won’t punch a giant hole in your checkbook....