The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
- Stephen S Rauh ,
- Eric B Wadsworth ,
- Bill Weeks ,
- James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | , Vol 365(26)
Many people believe that improving clinical quality — reducing readmissions, shortening lengths of stay, and building efficiency into clinical processes — will reduce health care costs. So why haven’t years of work in quality improvement had a measurable effect on costs?