Hospital Costs And Quality

Hospital quality and costs: evidence from England

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...

Public Hospital Costs and Quality in the Dominican Republic

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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...

Predicting hospital accounting costs

Two alternative methods to Medicare Cost Reports that provide information about hospital costs more promptly but less accurately are investigated. Both employ utilization data from current-year bills. The first attaches costs to utilization data using cost-charge ratios from the previous year's cost report; the second uses charges from current year's bills. The first method is the more accurate...