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Title
Hospital cost of care, quality of care, and readmission rates: penny wise and pound foolish?
Authors
Chen, Lena M; Jha, Ashish K; Guterman, Stuart; Ridgway, Abigail B; Orav, E John; Epstein, Arnold M
Abstract
Hospitals face increasing pressure to lower cost of care while improving quality of care. It is unclear if efforts to reduce hospital cost of care will adversely affect quality of care or increase downstream inpatient cost of care.
Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2010, Vol 170, Issue 4, p340