Creativity and hospital costs: it's all in the approach.
Although most hospitals do consider costs before deciding to fund a new undertaking, many of them fall short of the necessary inventiveness when it comes to developing low-cost alternatives in problem-solving situations. Thus, too often, solutions to problems are found in a climate of crisis that overshadows considerations of cost. If hospitals would take a creative approach to cost containment and regard it as a philosophy or an attitude rather than a program, they might find that they have less trouble in slowing down cost increases to the annual rate of inflation.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D003237:Connecticut; D003363:Cost Control; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003405:Creativity; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D007445:Inventories, Hospital; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration