Over-hospitalization: an issue for hospital management.
Issues of induced hospital services demand, low level of effectiveness of the inpatient care system for referring, disproportions of accounted cases compared the need for therapies, patients' distrust toward lower sectors of healthcare, low efficiency of primary outpatient care and specialized outpatient care, lack of control, inadequate organization structure, strategy and improper NHIF regulation are analyzed.
Abstract
The topic of this article is the insufficiently increasing rate of hospital admissions as a crucial factor for increasing hospital expenditures. The article focuses on the particular analysis of issues of induced hospital services demand, low level of effectiveness of the inpatient care system for referring, disproportions of accounted cases compared the need for therapies, patients' distrust toward lower sectors of healthcare, low efficiency of primary outpatient care and specialized outpatient care, lack of control, inadequate organization structure, strategy and improper NHIF regulation. The effective solving of these problems is a crucial term for improvement of the quality of inpatient care.