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19738266

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-9-9
pubmed:abstractText
High costs and unsafe care are major challenges for U.S. hospitals. Two sources of raised costs and unsafe care are adverse events in hospitals and tests ordered by several different physicians. After reviewing rates of these two occurrences in U.S. hospitals and simulating their costs, we estimated that in 2004 alone, eliminating readily preventable adverse events would have resulted in direct savings of more than $16.6 billion (5.5 percent of total inpatient costs). Eliminating redundant tests would have saved an additional $8 billion (2.7 percent). Addressing these situations could generate major savings to the system while improving patient care.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1544-5208
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1475-84
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Improving safety and eliminating redundant tests: cutting costs in U.S. hospitals.
pubmed:affiliation
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ajha@hsph.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't