Projecting Cost Containment in the Operating Room Utilizing Incentivized Strategies to Reduce Healthcare Cost

Cost-containment and cost-management strategies.

The leadership and boards of trustees of all healthcare organizations are the ultimate stewards of the limited resources available to best meet community needs. The strategic planning process leads the organization down a clear path of setting priorities, making choices, and taking action. The day a new cancer center opens or the latest technology arrives is an exciting one for the community. A...

Cost Accounting in the Operating Room

One of the problems in dealing with the above scenario is the lack of timely, accurate cost data upon which to base any decisions. Cost information is inadequate in many hospital departments, but the place where the lack of accurate cost data is most evident is often the Operating Room. The Surgery department is the leader in medical supply usage for the entire hospital. Decisions are made here...

nursing project management to reduce the operating room infection

background: nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. however, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (or) is rarely reported. we evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the or infections. methods: overall, 382...

Cost Containment in Europe

Health care cost containment is not in itself a sensible policy objective, because any assessment of the appropriateness of health care expenditure in aggregate, as of that on specific programs, requires a balancing of costs and benefits at the margin. International data on expenditures can, however, provide indications of the likely impact on costs and expenditures of structural features of he...

Health care cost containment.