Lack of care coordination resulted in fragmented care that was hard for these individuals to navigate, and resulted in potentially
avoidable costs in emergency room, hospital and institutional care.
"These unnecessary and
avoidable costs pile on more pressure when people are trying to keep their bills as low as possible.
The Minister of Power,Works and Hiusing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, who kick-started the event, also listed other challenges where stakeholders must work together to improve upon in order to remove
avoidable costs from road and related infrastructure development.
It is for cost accountants to help in innovation and improvement of processes and systems to reduce
avoidable costs and make each rupee that is invested go that much further.
Anjum Nisar also viewed we must be ensured that the dynamic and enduring benefits from CPEC accrue to the people living in the deprived districts of Baluchistan and Southern KP and by playing a more active role in maximising the benefits to the people of deprived districts and containing
avoidable costs, the government must able to allay a lot of misapprehensions and doubts.
Of the estimated
avoidable costs, non-adherence (57%) far outpaced delayed evidence-based treatment practice (13%), antibiotic misuse (11%), and medication errors (9%) among total
avoidable costs.
"We propose expansion of comprehensive medication management programs by clinical pharmacists in collaborative practices with physicians and other prescribers as an effective and scalable approach to mitigate these
avoidable costs and improve patient outcomes," the authors write.
But the charity's report, Current, Future and
Avoidable Costs of Stroke, predicts that an extra 9,000 people will be living with aphasia in less than 10 years' time.
In doing so, they are incurring
avoidable costs and reduced business performance and profitability.
Through taking a more informed decision-making approach, the company has reduced
avoidable costs related to faults by 40 per cent, including a 51 per cent reduction in energy-related faults as well as a 49 per cent reduction in faults causing improper zone conditions.
(2) In addition to putting patients at risk, medical errors contribute to substantial
avoidable costs estimated to exceed $17 billion annually in direct costs in the U.S.