Items related to Value-Based Anesthesia (Anesthesiology Clinics, Vol....
How society will pay for health care is an issue that deserves attention. For example, according to the US Congressional Budget Office the federal deficit is on an unsustainable fiscal path leading to crushing deficits in coming decades mostly due to soaring federal expenditures for Medicare and Medicaid. The projections are that if healthcare costs continue to grow as rapidly over the next four decades as they did over the past four decades, Medicare and Medicaid would rise from 4.5 percent of the economy today to 20 percent by 2050. In fact, their budgets would equal the entire size of the federal government today. Many observers have noted that the federal government is increasingly becoming a health insurance firm with various different side businesses. This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics explores the relationship between the costs of anesthetic management strategies and the value of this care as reflected by patient outcomes and satisfaction. The goal is to provide a viewpoint from a variety of anesthesia subspecialties as to how to provide the best patient outcomes at the lowest practical costs. This includes administrative and organizational support for an efficiently functioning operating room.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherSaunders
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1416062734
- ISBN 13 9781416062738
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages202
- EditorAlex Macario
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Value-Based Anesthesia (Anesthesiology Clinics, Vol. 26, No. 4)
Published by
Saunders
(2008)
ISBN 10: 1416062734
ISBN 13: 9781416062738
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xiv + pages 613-801, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Mild external shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Is it Possible to Measure and Improve Patient Satisfaction with Anesthesia? (Maurizia Capuzzo, Raffaele Alvisi); Pharmaceutical New Product Development: The Increasing Role of In-Licensing (Nancy V. Edwards); Staffing the Operating Room Suite: Perspectives from Europe and North America on the Role of Different Anesthesia Personnel (C.B. Egger Halbeis, A.Schubert); The Value Proposition of Anesthesia Information Management Systems (Christoph B. Egger Halbeis, Richard H. Epstein); Making It Work: Setting up a Regional Anesthesia Program that Provides Value (E.R. Mariano); How Much Work is Enough Work? Results of a Survey of US and Australian Anesthesiologists' Perceptions of Part-Time Practice and Part-Time Training (Catherine A. McIntosh, Alex Macario, Keith Streatfeild); Part-Time Clinical Anesthesia Practice: a Review of the Economic, Quality, and Safety Issues (Catherine A. McIntosh, Alex Macario); The Science and Economics of Improving Clinical Communication (W.T. O'Byrne, Liza Weavind, John Selby); How to Evaluate Whether a New Technology in the Operating Room is Cost-Effective from Society's Viewpoint (J.M. Tan, Alex Macario); Ten Tips in Providing Value in Operating Room Management (M.H. Tsai); Interaction Between Anesthesia Technology Innovators, Manufacturers, and Purchasers (B.Gingles) -- Countries around the world struggle to properly manage health care access, quality, and cost. In fact, some European countries with public health care systems are looking to privatize segments of health care to use competition as a mechanism to ration finite medical resources. This is ironic because in the United States, the opposite is occurring, as there is much political discussion about the viability of a public system as a way to reform the private, market-based medical system we live in. This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics explores the relationship between the costs of anesthetic management strategies and the value of this care as reflected by patient outcomes and satisfaction. The goal is to provide a viewpoint from a variety of anesthesia subspecialties as to how to provide the best patient outcomes at the lowest practical costs. This includes administrative and organizational support for an efficiently functioning operating room. The application of economic analysis to medicine does not necessarily mean that less money should be spent but rather that money can be better spent elsewhere and that current processes need to be re-evaluated and retooled to maximize efficiency. Seller Inventory # 007246
Buy Used
£ 31.26
Convert currency