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Clinical pathway as a strategy in improving healthcare quality and cost containment

The increasing health care cost and public awareness on the delivery of high quality services has forced healthcare service providers to look into the healthcare delivery system. Clinical Pathway (CP) has been introduced in many hospitals and has been accepted as a beneficial tool in assisting healt...

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Main Authors: Aniza I,, Saperi S,, Aljunid SM,
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2008
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2026/1/04-239-246_%28MS_068%29.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.20262016-12-14T06:30:42Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2026/ Clinical pathway as a strategy in improving healthcare quality and cost containment Aniza I, Saperi S, Aljunid SM, The increasing health care cost and public awareness on the delivery of high quality services has forced healthcare service providers to look into the healthcare delivery system. Clinical Pathway (CP) has been introduced in many hospitals and has been accepted as a beneficial tool in assisting healthcare organizations worldwide. Further, the CP also provides consistently high quality and coordinates services with minimum resources. It is proven to be a beneficial tool in other countries. CP is recently being introduced into the Malaysian healthcare system. The aim of this article was to high-light the benefits of CP in improving healthcare quality and controlling the medical cost. The relevant articles have been reviewed. The majority of literature reviewed con-cluded that there were positive effects in implementing CP. The CP was found to be significant in reducing length of stay and medical cost. The introduction of evidence based medicine, clinical outcomes, clinical audit, multidisciplinary communication, teamwork and care planning were also improved by CP. The challenges for healthcare providers and healthcare managers are to participate and be fully committed in path-way development and implementation in order to improve healthcare quality and cost control Penerbit UKM 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2026/1/04-239-246_%28MS_068%29.pdf Aniza I, and Saperi S, and Aljunid SM, (2008) Clinical pathway as a strategy in improving healthcare quality and cost containment. Medicine & Health, 3 (2). pp. 239-246. ISSN 1823-2140 http://www.ppukm.ukm.my/ukmmcjournal/index.ph
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description The increasing health care cost and public awareness on the delivery of high quality services has forced healthcare service providers to look into the healthcare delivery system. Clinical Pathway (CP) has been introduced in many hospitals and has been accepted as a beneficial tool in assisting healthcare organizations worldwide. Further, the CP also provides consistently high quality and coordinates services with minimum resources. It is proven to be a beneficial tool in other countries. CP is recently being introduced into the Malaysian healthcare system. The aim of this article was to high-light the benefits of CP in improving healthcare quality and controlling the medical cost. The relevant articles have been reviewed. The majority of literature reviewed con-cluded that there were positive effects in implementing CP. The CP was found to be significant in reducing length of stay and medical cost. The introduction of evidence based medicine, clinical outcomes, clinical audit, multidisciplinary communication, teamwork and care planning were also improved by CP. The challenges for healthcare providers and healthcare managers are to participate and be fully committed in path-way development and implementation in order to improve healthcare quality and cost control
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title_short Clinical pathway as a strategy in improving healthcare quality and cost containment
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