Examining the effects of an obstetrics interprofessional programme on reductions to reportable events and their related costs.

Examining the effects of an obstetrics interprofessional programme on reductions to reportable events and their related costs. J Interprof Care. 2018 Nov 08;:1-9 Authors: Geary M, Ruiter PJA, Yasseen AS Abstract There are many ways to account for the return on investment (ROI) in healthcare: improved communication, teamwork, culture, patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction, and clinical outcomes are but a few. Some of these are easier to quantify and associate to an intervention than others. What if the outcomes listed were not just independent results, but beget one another? In 2001, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada created the Managing Obstetrical Risk Efficiently (MOREOB) programme, to improve healthcare culture and patient outcomes in obstetrics by leveraging front-line ownership. Our study provides evidence that MOREOB lowers the frequency and cost of reportable events in maternity units. We sought to review the impact of this intervention on the frequency and cost of reportable events at the insurer level of a clinically focused, three-year interprofessional culture change intervention applied to the maternity unit. We compared the impact of reportable events both in the obstetrical and in the non-obstetrical areas of the same hospitals during the same time periods. We analysed these data using an interrupted time series (ITS) design, among 34 Ontario Canada hospitals. The ITS design assessed changes i...
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research