Shared Decisionmaking May Spur Higher Costs, Longer Hospital Stays: Researchers
Engaging patients in their care is often touted as a surefire way to control costs and reduce utilization of services, but new research calls that assumption into question.
Armed with eight years of survey data from more than 20,000 patients,
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Source: Modern Healthcare
“Lots of people, including me, believe that engaging patients will improve health outcomes and satisfaction,” Dr. David Meltzer, chief of hospital medicine and an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Chicago, and a co-author of the study, said in an interview. “People have extended that idea to mean that it also lowers costs, and that's not so clear.”
According to the study,
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