title: Using severity-adjusted data to impact clinical pathways.
abstract: Feeling the weight of managed care, doctors and nurses at a Midwestern health system have joined forces to reduce costs and average lengths of stay (LOS) in a key practice area--orthopedics. The result has been a 40 percent decrease in average length of stay over a three-year period.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent Hospital and Health Services, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fridlin
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D016519:Hospitals, Religious; D007196:Indiana; D007902:Length of Stay; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012720:Severity of Illness Index