Data · dataset · 2004
An Exploratory Study on the Practice of Clinical Pathway: a Perspective of Managerial Control
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From the managerial perspective, control is a necessary mechanism for an organization to motivate its members in order to reach the organization’s expected goals.
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It is a common dilemma as well as mission for hospitals to attain cost effectiveness and assure medical quality simultaneously. Shortening length of stay and increasing bed turnover are strategies popularly adopted by hospitals to contain costs.
Some managerial control systems or methods have been applied to the hospital industry nowadays. Among them, case management and clinical pathway is a newly developed tool. Through the analysis of clinical path, the most efficient procedure can be determined without sacrificing the treatment outcome and medical quality.
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However, should it be inappropriately utilized, medical quality can be jeopardized. The current study is intended to adopt a quasi-experimental design to explore the implementation of clinical pathway in three dimensions. They are clinical (days of on foley catheter, on Hemo Vac, on IV, and ambulation), time (length of stay), and financial (medical expenses).
The results show that hospitals with implementing clinical pathway system are much better in terms of lowing medical expenses and length of stay than those without. But there are no significant differences among hospitals in the aspect of indicators of medical quality.
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