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Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity

The present study attempts to offer insight into the volume, cost, and productivity of the operation of a cardiac echocardiographic laboratory (echo-lab) in a major public hospital of Greece and thus to contribute, on a practical level, to the widening of knowledge in the strategic field of secondar...

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Autores principales: Katsi, Vasiliki K, Vrachatis, Dimitrios A, Politi, Anastasia, Papageorgiou, Manto, Koumoulidis, Anastasios, Vlasseros, Ioannis, Vavuranakis, Manolis, Tousoulis, Dimitrios, Stefanadis, Christodoulos, Kallikazaros, Ioannis, Souliotis, Kyriakos
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4256161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25512890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-703
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author Katsi, Vasiliki K
Vrachatis, Dimitrios A
Politi, Anastasia
Papageorgiou, Manto
Koumoulidis, Anastasios
Vlasseros, Ioannis
Vavuranakis, Manolis
Tousoulis, Dimitrios
Stefanadis, Christodoulos
Kallikazaros, Ioannis
Souliotis, Kyriakos
author_facet Katsi, Vasiliki K
Vrachatis, Dimitrios A
Politi, Anastasia
Papageorgiou, Manto
Koumoulidis, Anastasios
Vlasseros, Ioannis
Vavuranakis, Manolis
Tousoulis, Dimitrios
Stefanadis, Christodoulos
Kallikazaros, Ioannis
Souliotis, Kyriakos
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description The present study attempts to offer insight into the volume, cost, and productivity of the operation of a cardiac echocardiographic laboratory (echo-lab) in a major public hospital of Greece and thus to contribute, on a practical level, to the widening of knowledge in the strategic field of secondary and tertiary healthcare management. The conducted research includes the basic step of the deployment of a primary data registry in the echo-lab and unfolds in three levels, i.e. the variability measurement of the quantity and cost of medical services provided to different patient populations, the assessment of operating costs and the development of productivity indexes. The results show that the mean costs of provision do change among distinct patient populations. The most important, from a financial standpoint, population cluster appears to be the one corresponding to outpatients. Productivity indices presented in this analysis constitute an essential piece of information which the public healthcare system is currently largely lacking, and which, combined with the pricing and the diagnosis-related group coding system of hospitals, can be used to improve efficiency in the management of secondary and tertiary care.
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spelling pubmed-42561612014-12-15 Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity Katsi, Vasiliki K Vrachatis, Dimitrios A Politi, Anastasia Papageorgiou, Manto Koumoulidis, Anastasios Vlasseros, Ioannis Vavuranakis, Manolis Tousoulis, Dimitrios Stefanadis, Christodoulos Kallikazaros, Ioannis Souliotis, Kyriakos Springerplus Research The present study attempts to offer insight into the volume, cost, and productivity of the operation of a cardiac echocardiographic laboratory (echo-lab) in a major public hospital of Greece and thus to contribute, on a practical level, to the widening of knowledge in the strategic field of secondary and tertiary healthcare management. The conducted research includes the basic step of the deployment of a primary data registry in the echo-lab and unfolds in three levels, i.e. the variability measurement of the quantity and cost of medical services provided to different patient populations, the assessment of operating costs and the development of productivity indexes. The results show that the mean costs of provision do change among distinct patient populations. The most important, from a financial standpoint, population cluster appears to be the one corresponding to outpatients. Productivity indices presented in this analysis constitute an essential piece of information which the public healthcare system is currently largely lacking, and which, combined with the pricing and the diagnosis-related group coding system of hospitals, can be used to improve efficiency in the management of secondary and tertiary care. Springer International Publishing 2014-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4256161/ /pubmed/25512890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-703 Text en © Katsi et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Vrachatis, Dimitrios A
Politi, Anastasia
Papageorgiou, Manto
Koumoulidis, Anastasios
Vlasseros, Ioannis
Vavuranakis, Manolis
Tousoulis, Dimitrios
Stefanadis, Christodoulos
Kallikazaros, Ioannis
Souliotis, Kyriakos
Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity
title Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity
title_full Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity
title_fullStr Cardiac echo-lab productivity in times of economic austerity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4256161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25512890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-703
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