Qualité et économies: vont-elles de pair [Quality and saving: do they run together?]

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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Qualité et économies: vont-elles de pair [Quality and saving: do they run together?]
Journal
Revue Médicale Suisse
Author(s)
Wasserfallen J.B.
ISSN
1660-9379
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2009
Volume
5
Number
225
Pages
2261-2263
Language
french
Abstract
In the healthcare debate, it is often stated that better quality leads to savings. Quality systems lead to additional costs for setting up, running and external evaluations. In addition, suppression of implicit rationing leads to additional costs. On the other hand, they lead to savings by procedures simplification, improvement of patients' health state and quicker integration of new collaborators. It is then logical to imagine that financial incentives could improve quality. First evidences of pay for performances initiatives show a positive impact but also some limitations. Quality and savings are linked together and require all our attention.
Keywords
Attitude of Health Personnel, Cost Savings, Health Maintenance Organizations/economics, Health Status, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Nurses, Physicians, Quality of Health Care/economics, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Reimbursement, Incentive
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