PCN221 OCM TO OCF: IMPLICATIONS FOR TOTAL COST OF CARE

Determination of Cost Parameters in Total Design for Manufacturing Parts

Design process is a key process in forming of product’s cost and if we notify to total design we will see all of the effective parameters in design activities. Design process is contented design planning, design inputs, design outputs, design review, design verification, design validation and design changes. This approach will help us to identify the cost parameters for managing, controlling an...

Total Cost of Care (TCOC) and Total Resource Use

Cost of cancer care: issues and implications.

Medical technology is increasingly costly in most fields of clinical medicine. Oncology has not been spared from issues related to cost, in part resulting from the tremendous scientific progress that has lead to new tools for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of our patients. The increasing cost of health care in general (and cancer care in particular) raises complex questions related to its ...

Intensional Combination of Rankings for OCF-Networks

Similar to Bayesian networks, so-called OCF-networks combine structural information encoded in a directed graph with qualitative information expressed by ranking degrees of (conditional) formulas. The benefits of such techniques are twofold: First, the high complexity of the semantical ranking functions approach is reduced substantially, and second, global ranks are obtained from local informat...

Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients.

IMPORTANCE A small proportion of patients account for the majority of US health care spending, and understanding patterns of spending among this cohort is critical to reducing health care costs. The degree to which preventable acute care services account for spending among these patients is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To quantify preventable acute care services among high-cost Medicare patient...