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Towards quality and cost-effective health care.

PubMedPublished 14 August 1997
Judith Shamian
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TL;DR

Research evidence about how nursing services contribute towards cost effectiveness and quality health outcomes is reviewed to make scientific-based knowledge more available.

Abstract

Although rich cumulative evidence exists on nursing's effectiveness, few policymakers and healthcare executives apparently are familiar with it. To make such scientific-based knowledge more available so that it can be considered and integrated in healthcare policy and reform, the WHO Collaborating Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, complied and reviewed research evidence about how nursing services contribute towards cost effectiveness and quality health outcomes. Below, a summary of its findings.

Keywords

Economics, Econometrics and FinanceHealth Professions