Pay professionals to do a professional job: better outcomes, reduced cost," one respondent wrote.
Indeed, as numerous studies have shown, educating girls and women translates into, among many other outcomes, reduced female fertility rates, improved nutrition for pregnant and nursing mothers and infants, improved infant mortality rates, and fewer early child marriages.
A judge making a decision on a criminal's sentence is in the same position as a doctor making a decision on a patient's treatment: they are choosing an intervention for an individual with the intention of producing a particular set of positive outcomes (reduced crime, and reduced drug use).
The idea was to start small, and create a microcosm of a health care system that works, according to four goals: improved clinical outcomes, reduced costs for the patient population as a whole, higher patient satisfaction and higher physician satisfaction.
A simple reminder of the fact that we do not always control life's outcomes reduced people's belief in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Indeed, we have described contemporaneous institutional improvements in clinical outcomes (reduced complication rates) and patient-level economic outcomes (reduced length of stay and hospital resource utilization) related to the growth of the ESU.
