Open AccessThe Value of Hospital Medicine
Author(s) -
Dong–Ho Shin
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the korean journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2289-0769
pISSN - 1738-9364
DOI - 10.3904/kjm.2022.97.1.28
Subject(s) - health care , hospital medicine , patient safety , quality management , medicine , value (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , medical emergency , nursing , family medicine , operations management , management system , computer science , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , economics , economic growth
In healthcare, value is defined as the measured improvement in a person's health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement. In the era of value in healthcare, hospital medicine successfully embraced strategies to improve hospital safety and to reduce medical error, length of stay and medical cost. As a specialist in general care and hospital system, hospitalists should learn topics of hospital medicine including safety, quality improvement, co-management, professionalism and leadership.