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G J Batchelor

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PubMed1989

Maintaining high quality patient care while controlling costs.

New evidence shows that high quality care costs less than poor quality care. High quality care encompasses the elimination of unnecessary or inappropriate services while providing better clinical outcomes, fewer avoidable complications, and greater patient satisfaction. Poor quality care results in adverse outcomes and patient dissatisfaction, both of which can prove costly to a hospital in a competitive market. Hospitals are developing sophisticated data-bases to monitor the quality of care provided to patients.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
PubMed1989

Quality management in nursing.

Nursing care is the number one criterion patients use to measure the quality of care at hospitals. With the trend toward a more integrated institutionwide approach to quality, nursing must adapt its traditional approach to complement an institutionwide quality management strategy. Although written standards have been the cornerstone of nursing quality management, they have not always stood up to objective measurement techniques. Only recently has nursing been using automated data for measuring nursing quality. This article provides an example of how nursing can use automated data to measure and manage the quality of nursing services.

Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over↗
PubMed1987

Clinical profiles manage quality, cost of hospital product.

This series of articles explores the bottom line of patient classification systems--their ability to measure the consumption and the quality of healthcare services. In these articles, the use of clinical profiles, severity measures, and nursing dependency factors are discussed as methods of measurement to help healthcare organizations manage the cost and quality of their services.

Chicago↗