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Dean Montgomery, MSPH, MA, HSA of Northern Virginia, 7245 Arlington Blvd., Suite 300, Falls Church, VA 22040, 703-573-3103, hsanv@aol.com

Evidence has been accumulating for many years that high-volume clinical services often have better treatment outcomes and lower unit costs than comparable low-volume programs. In many cases, the cost and treatment outcome differentials between low-volume and high-volume services are dramatic.

The service volume-treatment outcome connection and several other indicators and measures that can be used to plan more effectively, to promote better treatment outcomes, and to use health care resources more efficiently will be reviewed and discussed, with an emphasis on where these techniques and practices, and variations of them, have been employed successfully. Among the techniques and methods considered are benchmarking, small area analyses, trend analyses, planning-based market entry regulation, and planned (controlled) diffusion of new (advancing) medical technologies and practices.

The presentation will suggest strategies planners might consider using to try to ensure that the methods and practices they use recognize, and remain responsive to, changing social and market conditions.

Participants (there will be ample opportunity for audience interaction) will have the opportunity to learn more about how planning methods and strategies have changed in recent years and how to the application of the new approaches can be used to apply them more effectively in the current health care environment.

Learning Objectives:

Participants should gain a better understanding of (
• the value and use of evidence-based data and information in health services planning and regulation; (
• the utility of population-based planning as a tool to integrate public and private health initiatives; and (
• how to maintain an effective planning posture in a rapidly changing health care delivery system

Keywords: Policy/Policy Development,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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