Biomaterial Database

Clinical care & finance: can this marriage be saved? 2003

Teresa R Craig

Suncoast Solutions, Largo, Florida, USA. tcraig@sncoast.com

Financial staff and clinical staff do not necessarily see eye-to-eye. However, mutual understanding of one another's areas of expertise is essential to the success of a hospice. Financial and clinical staff can work together to streamline employee reporting, such as on time sheets and during annual reviews, to ensure that important data is being collected and staff don't waste time reporting on and analyzing extraneous data.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003361	Cost Allocation	The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services.	Cost Apportionment,Cost Shifting,Allocation, Cost,Allocations, Cost,Apportionment, Cost,Apportionments, Cost,Cost Allocations,Cost Apportionments,Cost Shiftings,Shifting, Cost,Shiftings, Cost
D003625	Data Collection	Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.	Data Collection Methods,Dual Data Collection,Collection Method, Data,Collection Methods, Data,Collection, Data,Collection, Dual Data,Data Collection Method,Method, Data Collection,Methods, Data Collection
D005376	Financial Management	The obtaining and management of funds for institutional needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.	Endowments,Financial Activities,Funds,Activities, Financial,Activity, Financial,Endowment,Financial Activity,Fund,Management, Financial
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000066	Accounting	System of recording financial transactions.	Accountings
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D015274	Interdepartmental Relations	The interactions between representatives of institutional departments.	Interdepartmental Relation,Relation, Interdepartmental,Relations, Interdepartmental
D017051	Hospice Care	Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)	Bereavement Care,Hospice Programs,Care, Bereavement,Care, Hospice,Hospice Program,Program, Hospice,Programs, Hospice
D018576	Home Health Aides	Persons who assist ill, elderly, or disabled persons in the home, carrying out personal care and housekeeping tasks. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms. 2d ed, p202)	Home Care Aides,Homemaker-Home Health Aides,Aide, Home Care,Aide, Home Health,Aide, Homemaker-Home Health,Aides, Home Care,Aides, Home Health,Aides, Homemaker-Home Health,Care Aide, Home,Care Aides, Home,Health Aide, Home,Health Aide, Homemaker-Home,Health Aides, Home,Health Aides, Homemaker-Home,Home Care Aide,Home Health Aide,Homemaker Home Health Aides,Homemaker-Home Health Aide