Healthcare Settings Analysis Class
Book : Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care
Case 18: What do you think of using small area studies based on large Medicare databases to identify outliers like the cardiology treatment in Elyria, Ohio?
Case 18: Salaried cardiologists at Kaiser Permanente in northern Ohio tended to use drugs more and cardiac procedures at a rate slightly below the national average. Analyze the role that differing financial incentives might be playing here.
Case 18: How would the findings of the COURAGE study affect your strategy as an Ohio insurer?
Case 20: What are the potential impacts of the physical environment on patients and provider care and well-being?
Case 20: What other solutions might be evaluated to alleviate the nurse walking problem? Be creative!