| Literature DB >> 24932153 |
Anita Valanju Shelgikar1, Jeffrey S Durmer2, Karen E Joynt3, Eric J Olson4, Heidi Riney2, Paul Valentine5.
Abstract
Current emphasis on patient outcomes within sleep medicine, with a particular focus on quality improvement and contained costs, calls for sleep specialists to develop innovative models for long-term care and management of sleep disorders patients. Multidisciplinary sleep centers can facilitate highest-quality care that is timely and cost-effective. Effective resource use in a multidisciplinary sleep center can help minimize fragmentation of care, reduce effort duplication, and control costs. Proposed strategies to help achieve a balance between quality of care and cost-effectiveness include: (1) multidisciplinary specialty clinics, (2) optimized use of information technology, and (3) adoption of reliable performance measures.Entities:
Keywords: cost-effectiveness; information technologies; multidisciplinary; outcomes; performance measures; sleep disorders
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24932153 PMCID: PMC4031414 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.3808
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Sleep Med ISSN: 1550-9389 Impact factor: 4.062