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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2023

Linking Costs and Quality in Healthcare: Towards Sustainable Healthcare Systems Comment on "Hospitals Bending the Cost Curve With Increased Quality: A Scoping Review Into Integrated Hospital Strategies".

Roland Bal, Iris Wallenburg

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Roland BalErasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7202-5053
Iris WallenburgErasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3132-4628

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisation-wide studies in cost and quality of care are rare, and Wackers et al make a valuable contribution in synthesizing the literature on this issue. Their paper provides a good overview of initiatives and a list of factors that help in furthering organisation-wide change. The eleven factors they distill from the literate however remain rather abstract and more work needs to be done to contextualize the factors and the work that is needed to accomplish them and to see how they are aligned. Challenges in healthcare quality and costs moreover increasingly cross organizational boundaries and we need new methods to study and evaluate these.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareHospitalsHumansLiteracyQuality Assurance, Health CareQuality of Health CareScoping Reviews as TopicComplex InterventionsCost ContainmentQuality Improvement

Identifiers

PMID35964164
PMCPMC10125085

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