title: A cost containment committee can help cut overall costs.
abstract: The cost containment committee at the University Hospital of Jacksonville has served many purposes. For example, through its activities, managers have gained a better sense of the overall needs of the institution, and the medical staff has learned how complicated resource allociation can be.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003363:Cost Control; D005431:Florida; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics*; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*