{"title":"Guideline for UTIs cuts office visits, lab and drug costs.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It's not just the big-ticket procedures that reap big savings for providers when it comes to developing clinical guidelines. Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound is saving about $750,000 each year thanks to a clinical guideline for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women. Here's the step-by-step details, plus Group Health's algorithm and detailed plans for implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":79903,"journal":{"name":"Health care cost reengineering report","volume":"3 4","pages":"56-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health care cost reengineering report","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It's not just the big-ticket procedures that reap big savings for providers when it comes to developing clinical guidelines. Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound is saving about $750,000 each year thanks to a clinical guideline for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women. Here's the step-by-step details, plus Group Health's algorithm and detailed plans for implementation.