Since the costs of nursing home care are a major component of the rapidly rising costs of health care, it is appropriate to base public policy discussions about cost containment on the determinants...
In an age of cost containment, agency partnerships have become an essential element for future planning and program implementation. This paper describes a trisectoral collaboration of a hospital, heal
(7) "Factors, Strategies, and Opportunities for Cost Containment in Nursing Service," by Barbara V. Tebbitt; (8) "Cost Containment in Nursing Education," by Carol J. Peterson; (9) "Quality...
This article examines the reorganization of nursing work during the cost containment era. In recent decades, the division of labor on hospital wards has been reversed through task reunification, a ...
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (2001) Vol. 31, No. 7 INTRODUCTION In the era of... of cost-containment efforts in both the public and private sectors. Underlying all of these efforts...
The health care system is undergoing profound changes. Cost containment efforts and restructuring have resulted in cutbacks in registered nurse (RN) positions. These changes are often related to th...
In her book “Caste,” the US journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson explains that caste systems have existed in three main forms in human history. There is the caste of Nazi Germany, which terrorized people as it spiraled toward disaster before eventually being subdued; the caste of India, which shows little sign of disappearing despite its formal abolition; and the race-based US caste system that has persisted despite not being outwardly apparent or mentioned. Under a caste system, people’...
Drug Therapy in Nursing Homes: Major Trends The United States faces a growing elderly population and an increasing level of frailty among its citizens living in long-term care facilities....
Cost containment of future healthcare, with maintained or improved quality, needs to be addressed through a concerted approach of testing key factors. We propose a framework for test lab design bas...