Towards quality and cost-effective health care.
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.
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Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
D019090:Case Management / Q000191:economics; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence