Cost containment in health care: a model for management research.
Cost containment is a dominant problem in the health care field, but it has not been addressed from a comprehensive management perspective. To fill this gap, we have developed an inclusive model of the cost containment process. The model has implications for management research in several areas: cost containment baselines, incentive systems, organization structures, cost/quality trade-offs, and cost containment constraints.
D003363:Cost Control; D006302:Health Services Research; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics*; D008962:Models, Theoretical