Do Policy Measures Impact on Cost Consciousness of Health Care Professionals?

LAT Software Induced Savings on Medical Costs of Alcohol Addicts' Care - Results from a Matched-Pairs Case-Control Study

“…Cost saving procedures are considered by many experts a trade off with quality of medical services [34], [35]. In this particular alcohol addicted population, authors assumed that patients experienced clinical improvement because of more efficient diagnostic algorithm leading to the more targeted, individually adjusted treatment and weaker demand for health care.…”

Need for reconceptualization of professional satisfaction and/or work effects in healthcare organizations

“…In other words, paying employees in healthcare system of the Republic of Serbia doesn't off er neither work moral, nor fi nancial satisfaction to their employees, which positively correlates with the indicators of their work's quality. Namely, by analyzing healthcare professionals' attitudes, some authors showed that economy restrictions performed in healthcare system, on both fi nancial and management part, lead to neglecting the health care, but also neglecting the costs of quality in healthcare institutions [27][28][29]. Vuković 2014 performed a study that showed that high level of fi nanciers and menagement's neglect of the costs of quality in healthcare system correlates with disordance in employees' behavior, low work moral, increase of irrational spending and causing the employees' to fall under suspicious encouragement by farmaceutical and other companies to use products with small or with no net benefi t at all, and increase judicial process costs started by healthcare services users or employees' of healthcare organizations [29].…”

The development of the questionnaire on health care professionals' attitudes on accreditation of health care institutions

“…For the aforementioned reasons, the direct correlation of the components of the employees' attitudes on accreditation with the components that make up the content of the other validated instruments could not be made, but could be discussed indirectly based on of logical implications. On the other hand, context factors (economic restrictions, limiting the number of health care workers employed to the bare minimum, as well as accumulating administrative work for health care professionals due to layoff s of non-medical staff ) could certainly have a signifi cant impact on health care professionals' views of professional satisfaction, motivation, as well as the quality and/or cost of quality health care in health care institutions [25]. Th erefore, we consider future research to be of utmost importance.…”