The bottom line is outcome-based assessment.
The message being delivered to hospitals through the Joint Commission's Agenda for Change is that today's bottom line is not based on a listing of activities done, but rather, on what outcomes, what impact on community problems, what benefits these activities have achieved. It is important to see that outcome-based evaluation methods, once adopted, do not degenerate into habitual production of largely ignored morbidity and mortality rates. Materiel managers must contribute a business-oriented understanding of costing and entrepreneurship while embracing a clinical-oriented goal of caring.
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Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia.
D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States