Cost-related Variables
| Autor: | Patricia H Wolff, Zoe New, Susan D Stelton, Jane Perry, Janet C Howard |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
medicine.medical_specialty Hysterectomy Leadership and Management business.industry medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Specialty Quality care Variance (accounting) Assessment and Diagnosis LPN and LVN Payment Clinical nurse specialist Family medicine medicine Chart audit business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Nurse Specialist. 3:37-40 |
| ISSN: | 0887-6274 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00002800-198900310-00012 |
| Popis: | The advent of prospective payment systems prompts nurses to examine cost-related factors in demonstrating savings resulting from quality care. The clinical nurse specialist plays an active role in the examination of variables influencing costs for patients within the specialty. This pilot study utilized a retrospective chart audit of 142 women falling within Diagnostic-related Group 355 (non-radical hysterectomy, age less than 70 years, without comorbid condition or complication) during 1985 to identify demographic, illness/treatment-related, and discharge variables related to charge variance. Independent (length of stay, p less than 0.001 and previous admission, p = 0.066) predictors of charge variance were found among the 14 variables studied. The value of the research as a model for other practitioners is discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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