Impact of Inpatient Harms on Hospital Finances and Patient Clinical Outcomes

"This all-cause harm safety study indicates that inpatient harm has negative financial outcomes for hospitals and negative clinical outcomes for patients."

Impact of Inpatient Harms on Hospital Finances and Patient Clinical Outcomes
L Adler et al.
2015, Journal of Patient Safety, doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000171

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Improving the quality of costing in the NHS

"there were only a limited number of organisations where cost information was used routinely outside of the finance department, and even less where it was used by clinicians to improve their own efficiency and the care that they delivered."

Improving the quality of costing in the NHS: Payment by Results data assurance framework
CAPITA
June 2014

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Challenges in health care financing and provision

The Nordic Economic Policy review has produced a special issue about challenges in health care financing and provision. Articles include:

• Ageing populations: more care or just later care?
• Lifestyle, health and costs - what does available evidence suggest?
• The economics of long-term care: a survey
• The role of primary health care in controlling the cost of specialist health care
• Payments in support of effective primary care for chronic conditions
• An economic assessment of price rationing versus non-price rationing of health care
• Should pharmaceutical costs be curbed?
• Productivity differences in Nordic hospitals: Can we learn from Finland?

Access the full issue here.