Here are the top five areas of concern, among 26 surveyed topics:
1. Improving ambulatory access — 57 percent
2. Innovative approaches to expense reduction — 57 percent
3. Boosting outpatient procedural market share — 55 percent
4. Minimizing unwarranted clinical variation — 54 percent
5. Controlling avoidable utilization — 49 percent
In the survey last year, hospital executives were most concerned with “minimizing unwanted variation in care cost and quality.”
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