Efficient: care that optimizes use of available resources to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Why is the "E-word" a bad word?
Chantal Lauzon, PT, CPA Senior Practice Manager, CPA Member since 1995
"Why do people shut down when the word "efficiency" is used? Is there so much negative connotation that we can no longer see the benefits? I reached out to five different people in the #QualityPT world and no one wanted to tackle this one!..." Read More
Video Links
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)- Healthcare: Efficiency may be the answer (3:13 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vK0cuhZxk
The Efficiency Paradox TED talk (18:48 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJpez7rvc0&feature=em-share_video_user
Journal Articles
Service Improvement: Reducing Outpatient Physiotherapy Waiting Times https://cdn.cumbriapartnership.nhs.uk/uploads/cpft-journal/CPJRPL_3_1_McGahon_p37-41.pdf
A Systematic Review of Healthcare Efficiency Measures http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00942.x/full
Assessing operational effectiveness in Healthcare organizations http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/09526861011017067
Lean healthcare: Rhetoric, ritual and resistance http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953610005253
"The Largest Lean Transformation in the World": The Implementation and Evaluation of Lean in Saskatchewan Healthcare https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265391311_The_Largest_Lean_Transformation_in_the_World_The_Implementation_and_Evaluation_of_Lean_in_Saskatchewan_Healthcare?enrichId=rgreq-46e40b0a-934d-4561-8679-290c2f637056&enrichSource=Y292ZXJQYWdlOzI2NTM5MTMxMTtBUzoxMzk4ODI0MjQ5NjcxNjhAMTQxMDM2MTk3Nzk2Nw%3D%3D&el=1_x_2
A framework for Healthcare planning and control https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-1734-7_12#page-1
The measurement of efficiency and productivity in health care delivery http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.1391/full
What is value in healthcare? http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/Nejmp1011024#t=article
The Impact of Electronic Health Records on Time Efficiency of Physicians and Nurses: A Systematic Review http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1067502705001015
Other Resources
The five principles behind the world’s most efficient health systems https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/mar/01/worlds-most-efficient-health-systems
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) https://www.cihi.ca/en/hse_short_aib_10apr14_en.pdf
From Data to Wisdom http://faculty.ung.edu/kmelton/Documents/DataWisdom.pdf
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