title: Achieving strategic cost reduction in the OR.
abstract: Hospitals should be proactive insearching for ways to control operating room supply chain costs. A hospital can identify an overall supply cost savings goal by analyzing patient-encounter data for its 15 most costly procedures and identifying the dollar figure under which 25 percent of cases fall for each procedure. After establishing savings targets, the hospital can achieve its goals through a range of approaches.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Buchler
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States