Productivity versus quality of care: ethical implications for clinical practice during health care reform.
Nurse practitioners must be alert to the changes related to health care reform in which models of delivery are focused on production to contain costs. Productivity models require providers to see more patients in less time. Ethical concerns regarding access to care, cost containment, and quality of health care services have implications for how NPs spend their time. Caring is discussed as the link between issues of cost containment and quality of care.
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D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care