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The Vanderbilt University experience.

R Spitzer
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The four models that form the University Community Health Services (UCHS) group practice include (1) Primary Care Centers, (2) Physician Partnerships, (3) Outsourcing of Nurse Practitioners, and (4) Employee-Based Health Care. Success is demonstrated by the following: UCHS practitioners deliver quality health care at 23% below the average cost of all other primary care providers, UCHS hospital inpatient rate is 21% below the average of all other primary care providers; the UCHS lab utilization rate is 24% below the other primary care providers; prescription drug utilization is 42% below average; and the latest patient satisfaction survey suggests that 82% of all patients (respondents) are very satisfied with their quality of care and on a scale of 1 to 4 (4 being the best) UCHS patients averaged services at 3.56. All the data suggest that UCHS providers have demonstrated above-average performance in cost-efficiency while delivering top quality health care.

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R Spitzer. 1997. The Vanderbilt University experience.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9287758/

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