Stakeholders' perspectives on capturing societal cost savings from a quality improvement initiative: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Besides improving the quality of care, quality improvement initiatives often also intend to produce cost savings. An example is prehabilitation, which can reduce complication rates and the length of stay in the hospital. However, the process from utilization reductions to actual societal cost savings remains uncertain in practice. Our aim was to identify barriers and facilitators throughout this process. We used the implementation of prehabilitation in a Dutch hospital as a test case.

Methods

We held 20 semi-structured interviews between June and November 2023. Eighteen stakeholders were affiliated with the hospital and two with different health insurers. Nine interviews were held face-to-face and 11 via Microsoft Teams. The interviews were recorded and transcribe

SUBMITTER: Kroon D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419338 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature