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Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Some Examples of Efficiency Measures

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Metric	Perspective	Outputs	Inputs
Cost per episode	Health plan	Health service bundle (cross entity)	Monetized total cost
Cost per discharge	Health plan	Health service bundle (win entity)	Monetized toal cost
Cost per covered life	Employer	# employees with health insurance	Premium price charged by plan
Cost per health improvement	Medicare	Change in functional status	Total costs of care
Labor utilization	Hospital (internal)	Total number of discharges	Total number of nursing hours
Productivity	Physician (internal)	Number of patients seen per year	Total number of MD pt-care hours
Generic prescribing rate	Health plan	Number of days rx supplied	Number of days generic rx supplied