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Article: Antibiotic precision pays off for hospital. (Utah facility improves effectiveness, saves money)
- Article from:
- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- June 17, 1996
- Author:
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The name of the game in healthcare management is this Do more with less.
Take antibiotics, for example. Here's a stiff managerial challenge: Put vastly more patients on the costly infection-fighting drugs, but spend less and use fewer total doses.
At the same time, decrease the death rate and the incidence of adverse drug events associated with antibiotics.
Do all this while holding the line on that alarming new threat to clinical effectiveness: bacterial resistance to commonly used antibiotics.
Hospitals around the country are writing these kinds of objectives into their game plans for trimming wasted effort from their medical routines, ...