How urgent care centers can enhance volume and revenue.

Providers that operate urgent care centers should: Allow time and resources to build a successful UCC. Include dedicated midlevel providers. Offer key diagnostic tests after hours.

A cost-minimization study of cancer patients requiring a narcotic infusion in hospital and at home.

We conducted a retrospective, non-randomized, cost-minimization study, from the perspective of the Ministry of Health, to compare the cost of managing cancer patients who required narcotic infusions, in hospital and at home. Our medical costs averaged $369.72 per inpatient day and $150.

Product line management in oncology: a Canadian experience.

More competition for finite resources and increasing regulation have led many hospitals to consider a strategic reorganization. Recently, one common reorganization strategy has been"product line management." Product line management can be broadly defined in terms of centralized program management, planning, and marketing strategies.