Hospital Z has a high percentage of followup surgeries. Those are surgeries that have to be done after the first surgery is not successful. In most cases this happens when patients are willing to be treated in this hospital, which is considerably cheaper compared to others in the region. Followup surgeries are done at the expense of hospital Z and reduce its income drastically.
Which of the following is the best solution to reduce the number of the followup surgeries?
a. Hospital Z has to ensure that all its patients know the risks compared to the more expensive options available
b. Hospital Z needs to hire more professional staff without increasing its prices.
c. Hospital Z needs to decrease the number of patients it serves.
d. Hospital Z needs to increase its prices significantly in order to decrease the number of patients.
e. Hospital Z needs to charge patients for followup surgeries, even if the patients would cover 30% of the cost of these surgeries.
IMO- E
OA IS D, the expalanation of OA says that if the number of total patients decreases then the total follow up surgeries decreases.
however, then C Should also hold true, and decreasing the total patients,(which may decrease so as to become very few) IS not the best solution to reduce the total follow up surgeries.
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