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Value Engineering-a Practical Approach to Managing Cost in Critical Care
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ray, Bert |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | Critical care, being highly capital and equipment intensive, is very expensive care. This not only poses a big problem for the patient but also for the health care providers who often express their inability to provide resources. Lot of strides have been made in the management of hospitals aimed at reducing cost. Introduction of Day care surgery, Hospital concept, Laparoscopic and key hole surgery with early discharge from the hospital are only few examples. It is because of cost reduction such as above the load on critical care could have increased for, more and more patients, admitted with complication, often land up in critical care unit. This scenario, in addition to ever rising cost of critical care, forces the intensivists to reduce cost without compromising quality of care in the intensive care units. Individual intensivists and health care professionals can and even do cost reduction from time to time. However, such isolated efforts cannot sustain it and only a systematic collective approach can sustain it. Since cost reduction holds the key to making critical care affordable, it is our primary duty to sustain cost reduction in critical care units. It is needless to mention that business houses are out to sell their products after camouflaging our ideas and through processes often making us spend more. It may not affect us as health care givers but it hits the health care provider and the hapless patient for whom we are supposed to be focused and concerned. It is therefore mandatory that we make our employer spend less and the patient pay less for the similar or even better service we offer. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://medind.nic.in/haa/t01/i1/haat01i1p41o.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
