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Increased Physician Literacy As An Intervention To Improve Value-Based Care And Reduce Cost In The Surgical Setting, Melissa Boyles

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The primary goal of this scoping review was to identify studies where an intervention of education and awareness of surgical supply costs with surgeons was employed as a possible stimulus for healthcare organization cost reduction in the surgical/procedural service space.

Surgical procedures are performed on approximately 25 percent of all inpatient hospital admissions. In 2018 that equated to 14.4 million surgical procedures and $210.3 billion dollars in health system costs. Surgical Procedures are a substantial portion of healthcare system expenditure and are one of the highest revenue producing services provided to patients. Additionally, there exists high variability in costs based …