An Economic Study of Cost Savings on a Care-by-Parent Ward
| Autor: | Robert G. Evans, Geoffrey C. Robinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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Parents
Nursing Service Hospital Unit (housing) Unnecessary Procedure Humans Medicine Quality of care Child Early discharge health care economics and organizations British Columbia Inpatient care business.industry Economics Nursing Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Limiting Self-Care Units medicine.disease Cost savings Hospital Bed Capacity under 100 Costs and Cost Analysis General pediatrics Medical emergency business Child Hospitalized Hospital Units |
| Zdroj: | Medical Care. 21:768-782 |
| ISSN: | 0025-7079 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00005650-198308000-00002 |
| Popis: | Alternatives to inpatient care that improve quality of care and save money are desirable during periods of restraint on hospital budgets. One such alternative is the care-by-parent unit (CBPU) in which a parent's stay on the ward can reduce costs by resuming nursing tasks, limiting unnecessary procedures, and encouraging early discharge. This study measured costs per case treated in the CBPU compared with the costs for similar patients treated in the inpatient nursing unit (NU). Average costs per episode were lower in the CBPU--33 per cent for general pediatrics, 13.5 per cent for tonsils and adenoids and 29 per cent for other surgery. These savings are capable of considerable expansion because more than half of the admissions to NU meet the criteria for admission to CBPU. If CBPU facilities were expanded, however, the savings estimated above would not follow automatically. New CBPU facilities must substitute for NU, not add to total utilization. |
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