TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence, quality, and waste
T2 - Solving the value equation in neonatology
AU - Dukhovny, Dmitry
AU - Pursley, Dewayne M.
AU - Kirpalani, Haresh M.
AU - Horbar, Jeffrey H.
AU - Zupancic, John A.F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - Rising health care costs challenge governments, payers, and providers in delivering health care services. Tremendous pressures result to deliver better quality care while simultaneously reducing costs. This has led to a wholesale re-examination of current practice methods, including explicit consideration of efficiency and waste. Traditionally, reductions in the costs of care have been considered as independent, and sometimes even antithetical, to the practice of high-quality, intensive medicine. However, it is evident that provision of evidence-based, locally relevant care can result in improved outcomes, lower resource utilization, and opportunities to reallocate resources. This is particularly relevant to the practice of neonatology. In the United States, 12% of the annual birth cohort is affected by preterm birth, and 3% is affected by congenital anomalies. Both of these conditions are associated with costly health care during, and often long after, the NICU admission. We will discuss how 3 drivers of clinical practice in neonatal care (evidence-based medicine, evidence-based economics, and quality improvement) can together optimize clinical and fiscal outcomes.
AB - Rising health care costs challenge governments, payers, and providers in delivering health care services. Tremendous pressures result to deliver better quality care while simultaneously reducing costs. This has led to a wholesale re-examination of current practice methods, including explicit consideration of efficiency and waste. Traditionally, reductions in the costs of care have been considered as independent, and sometimes even antithetical, to the practice of high-quality, intensive medicine. However, it is evident that provision of evidence-based, locally relevant care can result in improved outcomes, lower resource utilization, and opportunities to reallocate resources. This is particularly relevant to the practice of neonatology. In the United States, 12% of the annual birth cohort is affected by preterm birth, and 3% is affected by congenital anomalies. Both of these conditions are associated with costly health care during, and often long after, the NICU admission. We will discuss how 3 drivers of clinical practice in neonatal care (evidence-based medicine, evidence-based economics, and quality improvement) can together optimize clinical and fiscal outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1542/peds.2015-0312
DO - 10.1542/peds.2015-0312
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26908677
AN - SCOPUS:84960155616
SN - 0031-4005
VL - 137
JO - Pediatrics
JF - Pediatrics
IS - 3
M1 - e20150312
ER -