Activity-based management: a tool to complement and quantify continuous quality improvement efforts

Article Abstract:

Quality and cost control can be integrated in managing a home health agency with an activity-based cost management (ACBM) system. Activity-based costing is integrated with activity-based management to produce a quality management plan for continuous quality improvement. Activity-based costing is used to determine accurate product costs based on the relationship between resource consumption and the agency's services and activities. Activity-based management relates cost drivers, activities and performance measures. This method allows non-value added activities to be identified as targets for cost reduction without affecting quality.

Management, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Home care services

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The synergistic relationship between ethics and quality improvement: thriving in managed care

Article Abstract:

The use of quality improvement models to evaluate ethical issues may more scientifically validate medical ethical standards particularly in a changing medical environment where finances continue to drive patient care decisions. Quality improvement teams are short-term focus groups that develop and evaluate a plan to improve a targeted area based on scientific methods. One hospital has used this collaborative process to decrease the use of restraints on their patients by 55%.

Services, Managed care plans (Medical care), Medical ethics

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Ethics committees and quality improvement: a necessary link

Article Abstract:

Patient care may be improved by combining the efforts of quality improvement programs with ethics committees particularly in a changing medical environment increasingly driven by financial considerations. This link may be established by incorporating an ethics consultant into the quality improvement process. Health care controversies surfacing in the 1960's and 1970's led to the establishment of hospital and research ethics committees.

Ethics committees

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