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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"hospital performance"”.
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Measurement of Hospital Performance: Environmental and Organizational Factors Associated with Cost
… there is increased interest in measuring the performance of health care providers. For bottom line oriented payors such as government and business, the focus is on measuring cost. As hospitals account for over one-third of health care expenses, hospital cost per admission is a common measure …
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Actor Networks in Health Care: Translating Values into Measures of Hospital Performance
… is accomplished through measuring and comparing performance, but there are a number of disparate actors involved in this endeavor. Through a network of both public and private actors, collaboration on the development of a set of national performance measures is underway. Organizations such as the …
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The development and application of an analytical healthcare model for understanding and improving hospital performance
… With an ageing population the pressure on hospitals to maintain the quality of patient care is only going to rise as demand increases. Improving the management of these systems is important for avoiding potential dangers such as patient overcrowding and bed blockages which can result in or …
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Performance and JSE listing of selected South African hospital operators
… Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listing Status and performance of selected South African private Hospital Operators covering a 10- year period from 2008-2017. The selected proxies for the hospital performance measured were: Total Annual Revenue, Revenue per Bed per Day, Total Number of Hospital …
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Leadership and Healthcare Performance
… inferior quality of care delivered by U.S. hospitals. While the U.S. hospital industry is adapting to address these issues, not much progress in improving the quality of care delivered has been made over the last decade. However, theories exist that management systems, organizational traits, …
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ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES
<p>Hospitals are the largest and most complex organizations where health care is provided. Safe and effective patient care services in hospitals depend on the efficient decisions made by hospital executives. The main task of hospital executives is to ensure the hospital can provide high quality …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SECONDARY PREVENTION MEASURES FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
… receive these secondary prevention measures at hospital discharge relative to similar patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Although adherence to guidelines-based therapy has been imperfect for both procedures, secondary prevention adherence rates at discharge have been …
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Three Essays on Regulation in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Markets
… how regulation and deregulation impacts hospital performance, its persistence effect and the different impact on drug markets. The authorities designed programs and policies to regulate hospitals and pharmaceutical markets, aiming at improving hospital performance and control drug prices, …
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Towards high performing hospital enterprise architectures : elevating hospitals to lean enterprise thinking
… expenditure represented 16% of its GDP, with hospitals representing the largest source of expenditure, as is the case in the United Kingdom. Consequently, the strategies and operations developed and implemented by hospitals have a significant impact on healthcare. Today, it would be hard to …
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Are HRM practices related with patient mortality in NHS hospitals?:A study examining the underlying reasons for such an association
… reasons why HR practices may be related to hospital performance. Details are given of the results of a staff attitudinal survey within five NHS Trusts. This study examined will show that a range of developmental activity, the favourability of the immediate work environment (in relation to …
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Stimulating healthcare organizational improvement through public reporting of smoking cessation advice rates
… method of instituting quality improvement among hospitals in the area of smoking cessation through publicizing poor performance. Smoking cessation was used as an indicator due to its impact on the health of our population, evidence base and also because of availability of data. The Joint …
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A Generic Simulation-based Perioperative Decision Support Tool for Tactical Decision
… focused on reducing wait times through pay for performance and volume target initiatives. In Ontario, an expert panel was assembled to evaluate the current state of surgical processes and provide recommendations to improve access, efficiency and quality. This thesis addresses the panel's …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states California and Florida, discharging Medicare patients with a principal discharge …
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Public Reporting Of Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Impact Of Public Policy On Healthcare Organizations And Patient Outcomes
… source of morbidity and mortality in U.S. hospitals. Policy makers have responded with a variety of state and federal policies to reduce infections by increasing the visibility and accountability of hospital performance. One policy initiative that has gained momentum is state-level …
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Moral Hazard and Hospital Physician Integration
Despite the importance of the hospital physician relationship, little is known about hospital physician integration. In this dissertation, I examine how integration solves moral hazard problems in a principal-agent relationship in the context of the hospital physician integration continuum. I build …
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An Assessment of Management Practices Among Virginia Acute Care Hospitals
… systems may have on Virginia acute care hospitals profitability, market share, market growth potential and personnel (staff), turnover rates, the survey method with appropriate questions addressing these areas of concern was used.</p> <p>In order to investigate the possible differences …
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Electronic Medical Records in Acute Care Hospitals: Correlates, Efficiency, and Quality
… organizational and environmental correlates of hospital EMR use and to examine the relationship between hospital EMR use and performance. Using a theoretical framework that combines resource dependence theory with Donabedian's structure, process, outcome model, a conceptual model is created. To …
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Improving the Discharge Planning Process in the Orthopedic ERAS Program
… led by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, performance improvement staff and patient education teams in this large integrated healthcare system. It focuses on improving pain management with less opioid use, early mobility, nutrition and patient engagement, which results in the reduction in …
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From Theory to Practice: Improving Causal Conclusions from Healthcare Data
… settings. In Chapter 2, we investigate the performance and robustness of state-of-the-art machine learning estimators for causal inference when covariate selection for statistical adjustment is performed in a realistically suboptimal manner. Although nonparametric doubly robust methods are …
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