ABSTRACT
This paper presents a case study where the efforts to improve clinical guidelines resulted in significant savings in material costs through the standardization of the supplies and negotiation of contracts with the suppliers. It also presents an approach that is now being used to standardize material and reduce supply costs in other areas of the health system.
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Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/economics , Materials Management, Hospital/organization & administration , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Total Quality Management/organization & administration , Wounds and Injuries/therapy , Bandages/economics , Chronic Disease , Cost Control , Hospitals, Urban/economics , Hospitals, Urban/organization & administration , Humans , Materials Management, Hospital/economics , Michigan , Multi-Institutional Systems , Organizational Case StudiesABSTRACT
The present study tested the reliability of a self-report diagnostic measure of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) based on DSM criteria. Among two samples of undergraduate students, 47-80% of the GAD diagnoses by questionnaire were confirmed by diagnostic interview, with the higher rate being associated with DSM-IV criteria. Categorization of a participant as Non-GAD by questionnaire was found to be 100% reliable by interview. Given these findings as well as prior empirical support for the validity of the measure, this questionnaire has utility for identifying analogue GAD and Non-GAD participants from undergraduate populations for use in preliminary investigations of the mechanisms and functions associated with chronic worry and GAD.
