Standards of Health Care Evaluation 2
BHS450 Module 2-Discussion/Standards of Evaluation Quality has been overshadowed by the emphasis placed on access and costs of health care delivery. One major factor causing this phenomenon is the difficulty associated with defining and measuring "quality." This difficulty notwithstanding, in recent years "quality" has taken center stage as the government and healthcare organizations look to reduce the cost of care by improving the quality of care. For example, if you provide quality care, the chances of a patient coming back due to complications from your treatment. For this discussion question, take a position on the notion that costs and quality of care are connected. Do you believe that if costs of providing care go up, quality goes down as shortcuts might be taken? In preparing your response, ensure that you properly in-text cite all sources used in the support of your stated positions and the example or examples you chose to utilize.
Standards of Health Care Evaluation
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Introduction
In the recent past, access of health care has been such a big problem that quality in health care has had to take second place in order for access to primary care to be made available. However, costs have become such a lingering problem that most have preferred to save money at the expense of reducing quality (Cutler, 2014). The objective of this essay is to discuss the relationship between costs and quality of health care.
Quality vs. Costs
As costs of providing care go up, quality should not go down due to shortcuts because the objective of the care should always be to provide quality. Failure to provide quality healthcare even if costs go up contributes to waste (Cutler, 2014). Low quality health care results in more disease reoccurrences. In fact, more money will be spent on treating ailments which should have been sorted in the first place.
Quality = Preventive
Another relationship that is vital to understand is that quality health care is a preventive measure which not only prevents continual spending, but quality health care entails that health providers sufficiently provide customers with pre...