一个成本控制的成功案例。

Trustee. 1978 Sep;31(9):59-60, 62, 64.

At Northwest Hospital in Seattle, cost containment is not a stopgap program but a principle of sound management. Since 1974, an aggressive cost containment effort has enabled the hospital to increase its earnings in the face of declining revenues and to reduce its rates two years in a row.

在西雅图的西北医院，成本控制并非权宜之计，而是合理管理的一项原则。自1974年以来，积极的成本控制措施使该医院在收入下降的情况下仍能增加收益，并连续两年降低收费标准。