Cost containment: Europe. Switzerland

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serval:BIB_A58B61789533
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Cost containment: Europe. Switzerland
Journal
New Horizons
Author(s)
de Torrente  A., Chiolero  R., Suter  P. M.
ISSN
1063-7389 (Print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/1994
Volume
2
Number
3
Pages
345-9
Notes
Journal Article --- Old month value: Aug
Abstract
Thanks to Switzerland's very favorable economic situation over the last 20 yrs, intensive care medicine in the country has reached a very satisfactory level. The country is covered by a dense network of ICUs certified by the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SSICM). Bed allocation is generous, technological equipment plentiful, and nurses are well trained in a specialized certification program. Rules imposed on physician training by the SSICM have recently become more stringent. A large supply of money in Switzerland has made cost containment efforts a low priority; no well defined program to reduce intensive care costs is in effect. Due to an increasingly difficult economic situation in the future, Switerland's near optimal healthcare system may change; cost containment will probably have to be dealt with seriously in the near future.
Keywords
Attitude to Health/ethnology Certification Cost Control/*methods Cultural Characteristics Delivery of Health Care/*economics Diffusion of Innovation Forecasting Hospital Bed Capacity Humans Intensive Care/*economics Patient Admission/economics Personnel, Hospital/economics/education Societies, Medical Switzerland Technology, Medical
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