Fridlin C
St. Vincent Hospital and Health Services, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Healthc Inf Manage. 1996 Spring;10(1):23-30.
Feeling the weight of managed care, doctors and nurses at a Midwestern health system have joined forces to reduce costs and average lengths of stay (LOS) in a key practice area--orthopedics. The result has been a 40 percent decrease in average length of stay over a three-year period.
感受到管理式医疗的压力,中西部一家医疗系统的医生和护士联手在一个关键业务领域——骨科,降低成本并缩短平均住院时长(LOS)。结果是,在三年时间里平均住院时长下降了40%。