An effective and efficient healthcare system starts, first and foremost, with ensuring that patients are seen by the right providers – clinicians who have the proper training and expertise to treat a patient’s specific condition using best practices and processes.
When we fail to take this vital consideration into account, the entire system starts to break down, leading to poorer health outcomes for patients, increased hospital readmissions, wasted physicians’ time and unnecessary patient co-payments – ultimately generating billions of dollars in avoidable spending across the entire U.S. healthcare system.
On quality, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that clinical experience and outcomes are directly correlated.
In one well-publicized study, ovarian cancer patients who undergo intervention experienced significantly better 5-year survival when treated by physicians who perform 10 or more ovarian cancer procedures per year versus physicians who perform fewer than 10.
Another more recent study noted a small increase in CABG mortality rates that was positively correlated with the number of days that the performing surgeon was on break or vacation prior
to the procedure.
Of course, there are other factors that likely affect these statistics, such as acuity and severity of the patient and system inefficiencies that affect the fluency of the surgical team, but there is substantial evidence that – as is the case in so many other environments – practice makes perfect in healthcare.
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