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Best practices for managing surgical services: the role of coordination.
- Source :
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Health care management review [Health Care Manage Rev] 1997 Fall; Vol. 22 (4), pp. 72-81. - Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- Growing evidence exists that patient outcomes are related to how effectively health care organizations coordinate work responsibilities among their staffs. However, information is lacking on actual practices that can be used to achieve effective coordination. This article reports on a National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study, in which the authors studied the coordination practices of 20 surgical services that, based on risk-adjusted mortality and morbidity rates, occupied different ends of the patient outcomes continuum.
- Subjects :
- Health Services Research
Hospital Mortality
Hospitals, Veterans standards
Humans
Patient Care Team organization & administration
Patient Care Team standards
Quality Assurance, Health Care organization & administration
Surgery Department, Hospital standards
United States
Benchmarking
Hospitals, Veterans organization & administration
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care methods
Surgery Department, Hospital organization & administration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0361-6274
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health care management review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9358262
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004010-199710000-00010