Statist funding system fails to provide incentives to stop preventable mistakes in OZschwitz hospitals

HOSPITAL complications and mistakes cost Australia hundreds of millions of dollars a year but the new funding system will hand higher payments to hospitals for treating patients they have harmed, says the health economist Stephen Duckett.

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Professor Duckett has called for the introduction of measures to overcome the ''perverse'' incentives for payment of hospital mistakes which can routinely add $20,000 to patient care but are largely preventable.

Common avoidable problems include hospital-acquired infections, problems with cardiac and vascular implants and pressure ulcers.
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The new Independent Hospital Pricing Authority has announced the price per service on which the Commonwealth will base its contribution to public hospital funding. But that figure sets the same price for a service whether or not it involves a hospital-triggered problem.

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Statist funding system fails to provide incentives to stop preventable mistakes in OZschwitz hospitals

Statist funding system fails to provide incentives to stop preventable mistakes in OZschwitz hospitals

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