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Value-Based Care in the Hospital

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The accepted definition for value among the medical community is health outcomes achieved per dollar spent. Determining how to measure health outcomes is a multipart process: choosing which health outcomes to measure, determining a uniform method of measuring the outcomes, comparing outcomes to a defined baseline, and repeating the process for negative outcomes. The following chapter examines the definition of value in healthcare and the influence of economics on value.

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  1. Ochsner Medical Center - North Shore, Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Jason B. Hill

  2. University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, QLD, Australia

    Santoshi M. Kandalam

  3. New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Sneha Panganamamula

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Hill, J.B., Kandalam, S.M., Panganamamula, S. (2022). Value-Based Care in the Hospital. In: Conrad, K. (eds) Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95164-1_15

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