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With rapidly increasing health care expenditures, accurately measuring cost is essential to determine the value of care and enable acute care surgeon leaders to drive value-increasing improvements.
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Acute care surgeons can drive value improvement via cost quantification; leaves open optimal methods for routine use.
BACKGROUND: With health care expenditures continuing to increase rapidly, the need to understand and provide value has become more important than ever. In order to determine the value of care, the ability to accurately measure cost is essential. The acute care surgeon leader is an integral part of driving improvement by engaging in value increasing discussions. Different approaches to quantifying cost exist depending on the purpose of the analysis and available resources. Cost analysis methods range from detailed microcosting and time-driven activity-based costing to less complex gross and expenditure-based approaches. An overview of these methods and a practical approach to costing based on the needs of the acute care surgeon leader is presented.
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