These findings are important due to their potential for injury reduction, performance benefit and cost saving practices for a relatively low cost intervention.
Forty-one states, including California and New Hampshire, have adopted a model rule drafted by the American Bar Association, or similar provisions, which allow lawyers to unbundle their services and take only part of a case, a cost-saving practice known as "limited-scope representation" that, with proper ethical safeguards, is responsive to new realities.
The cost-saving practice has spread to other businesses, prompting experts to predict that litigation in more traditional fields could be next.
"However, this life- and cost-saving practice faces serious threats.
Winter grazing is practiced in those areas where snow does accumulate, and is a sustainable and cost-saving practice to get cattle out of the corrals and onto the fields or pastures during the winter.
Economic forces have precipitatedintense interest in cost-saving practices for patients undergoingcoronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
The food company's 2008 guidance is healthy and sweet thanks to fortified sales, cost-saving practices and tasty new products.
It was a cost saving but dangerous practice, again endangering the BP workforce, until I exposed it to Senator Ted Stevens, the EPA, and the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission".
25 Modelling different diagnosis options reveals that better bedside diagnosis (with device-based eye movement interpretation using video-oculography (VOG) equipment 28) could produce cost-effective quality improvements (cost saving relative to current practice (figure 3).
Launching the campaign at a primary school in Luanda, Vice-Minister of Health Evelize Frestas told children that handwashing with soap is a simple, low-cost, life-saving practice – and one that is accessible to all Angolans.
While quality of care must be the primary objective driving practice change, cost saving is a positive side effect.
