Preventive care as a cost saving measure is a fallacy

Links shared publicly online about this topic.

  • 732
    total visits

Preventive care as a cost saving measure is a fallacy

kevinmd.com

Embrace of primary care provided by nurse practitioners shows a truly spectacular lack of understanding of what primary care really entails.

View full resource at kevinmd.com

Tags: Preventive Care, Nursing Professions, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing

  • Share

Most Recently Shared on December 17, 2010 at 1:27 pm By:

massmedical MA Medical Society

RT @kevinmd: Preventive care as a cost saving measure is a fallacy http://is.gd/iTlvB

2 years ago...

Also Shared By:

Lisa Marie Blaskie Lisa Marie Blaskie

Physician Assistants Physician Assistants

Cost Effective Infection Control Measures Could Save Thousands Of Lives, Billions Of Dollars - QualityPoint Technologies

qualitypointtech.net — “At any given time, one of every 20 hospital patients has a hospital-acquired infection, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This leads to an estimated 99,000 deaths in the U.S. each year and up to $33 billion in preventable health care costs. Now a new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers finds that adopting an inexpensive set of infection control measures could potentially save many thousands of lives and billions of dollars. The study appeView full resource at qualitypointtech.net

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on September 11, 2011 at 10:00 am By:

MedicalFeed MedicalFeed Health News Feed

Cost Effective Infection Control Measures Could Save Thousands Of Lives, Billions Of Dollars: At any given time, o... http://t.co/qvWcOpg

9 months ago...

Does Prevention Really Lower Health Care Costs? - Newsweek.com

newsweek.com — “Cancer screening and other measures for heading off disease don't always reduce health-care costs.View full resource at newsweek.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on June 1, 2009 at 1:26 am By:

healthglobal eHealthGlobalHealth Health Organization

RT @Cascadia @gfry NEJM only 19 % preventive interventions ended up saving $. Some cost a lot more, especially up front http://bit.ly/9gHKY

3 years ago...

Advertisement