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Aug 10, 2021 · Background Hospitals operate under constant pressure to contain costs and improve the quality of care. The literature suggests that there is an association between health care providers’ financial performance and the quality of care. On the one hand, providers that are financially more stable might have better capacity to maintain reliable systems and resources for quality improvement. On ...
- Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Ewa Kocot, Marzena Tambor, Wilm Quentin, Wilm Quentin
- 2021
Oct 20, 2021 · Hospitals operate under constant pressure to contain costs and improve the quality of care (Q). The potential association between hospital financial performance (FP) and Q can have two directions: (1) providers with better FP might have a greater capacity to maintain and/or improve Q; (2) a better Q might lead to better FP, i.e. increased revenues, and/or lower costs.
- Gang Nathan Dong
- gd2243@columbia.edu
- 2015
- Table 1 Expected sign of the effects on quality of care. Several existing studies have examined how hospital financial pressures have affected the quality of care.
- Table 2 Clinical condition and treatment measure. According to [43], hospitals could report a null value for any process measure if the number of cases is too small or no data are available for this measure; therefore, we drop observations with missing values from all of our analyses.
- Table 3 Number of hospitals in each state and year. As [44] points out that the quality measure of treatment processes does not take into account the size effect, we need to control for hospital size, ownership, and location, among other financial characteristics including financial leverage, profitability, asset liquidity, operating efficiency, labor costs, and charity care expenses.
- Table 4 Variable definitions. Statistical analysis. This paper focuses upon assessing the statistical association between hospital financial health and process quality by conducting pooled cross-sectional OLS regressions that relates process quality measure to various hospital financial characteristics.
Aug 16, 2019 · Results. Among the 108 New York State acute care facilities for which data were available, there is a clear relationship between hospital financial performance and hospital quality/safety performance score (standardized correlation coefficient 0.34, p<0.001). The composite financial performance score is also positively associated with the CMS ...
- Dean D. Akinleye, Louise-Anne McNutt, Victoria Lazariu, Colleen C. McLaughlin
- 2019
Background Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial deficits. The objective of this paper was to identify and map the available evidence on the association between hospital financial performance (FP) and quality of care (Q).Methods A scoping review was performed ...
Aug 10, 2021 · On the other hand, providing better quality of care might lead to financial gains in the form of increased revenues or achieved savings and, in consequence, a higher profitability. The general objective of this scoping review is to identify and map the available evidence on the association between hospital financial performance and the quality of care.
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2.1 Patient-Centric Care Quality and Satisfaction We define Patient care quality (PCQ) as the excellence of the medical care received by admitted patients in hospitals (Chang et al., 2009; Nelson and Niederberger, 1990). Based on a synthesis of the multi-dimensional nature of patient care quality discussed in extant literature (Dagger et al., 2007;
