TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the relationship between cost and quality of care in the neonatal intensive care unit and beyond
AU - Culbertson, Lauren
AU - Dukhovny, Dmitry
AU - Lapcharoensap, Wannasiri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - There is tremendous variation in costs of delivering health care, whether by country, hospital, or patient. However, the questions remain: what costs are reasonable? How does spending affect patient outcomes? We look to explore the relationship between cost and quality of care in adult, pediatric and neonatal literature. Health care stewardship initiatives attempt to address the issue of lowering costs while maintaining the same quality of care; but how do we define and deliver high value care to our patients? Ultimately, these questions remain challenging to tackle due to the heterogeneous definitions of cost and quality. Further standardization of these terms, as well as studying the variations of both costs and quality, may benefit future research on value in health care.
AB - There is tremendous variation in costs of delivering health care, whether by country, hospital, or patient. However, the questions remain: what costs are reasonable? How does spending affect patient outcomes? We look to explore the relationship between cost and quality of care in adult, pediatric and neonatal literature. Health care stewardship initiatives attempt to address the issue of lowering costs while maintaining the same quality of care; but how do we define and deliver high value care to our patients? Ultimately, these questions remain challenging to tackle due to the heterogeneous definitions of cost and quality. Further standardization of these terms, as well as studying the variations of both costs and quality, may benefit future research on value in health care.
KW - Health care costs
KW - Neonatal intensive care
KW - Quality
KW - Value
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U2 - 10.3390/children7110238
DO - 10.3390/children7110238
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85105986824
SN - 2227-9067
VL - 7
JO - Children
JF - Children
IS - 11
M1 - 238
ER -