A new approach to the tradeoff between quality and accessibility of health care
Quality of care is associated with patient volume. Regionalization of care is therefore one of the approaches that is suited to improve quality of care. A disadvantage of regionalization is that the accessibility of the facilities can decrease. By investigating the tradeoff between quality and accessibility it is possible to determine the optimal amount of treatment locations in a health care system. In this article we present a new model to quantitatively ‘solve’ this tradeoff. We use the condition breast cancer in the Netherlands as an example.
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2012
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Authors: | Tanke, Marit A.C. ; Ikkersheim, David E. |
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Health Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0168-8510. - Vol. 105.2012, 2, p. 282-287
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Quality of health care | Policy making | Allocation | Regionalization of health care | Hospital volume |
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