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Successful Strategies for Effective Management of Hospital Utilization

Group Health, Inc., 2829 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55429

Providing high-quality, cost-effective medical care is the challenge facing all managers of health care, physicians and administrators alike. Meeting this challenge will help determine the financial success of any health care delivery system. Innovative program ming to successfully decrease hospitalization and the length of stay is one of the keys to successfully meet ing this challenge. This article provides an overview of programs which, if implemented, will do much to either eliminate or shorten hospital days.

American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 5, No. 2, 47-52 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0885713x9000500204


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