Over the past few years there has been a fast-growing trend of hospitals outsourcing clinically relevant services – like anesthesiology and emergency medicine – to companies separate from the hospital, reports The Conversation. When that happens, hospitals relinquish some of the control they have over quality of care.
New research focused on four clinically relevant services – emergency care, radiology, laboratory services and environmental services – shows tangible harm comes to patients and hospitals when those were outsourced. Read more.
