A Framework for Measuring Low-Value Care

Measuring low-value care in Medicare.

IMPORTANCE Despite the importance of identifying and reducing wasteful health care use, few direct measures of overuse have been developed. Direct measures are appealing because they identify specific services to limit and can characterize low-value care even among the most efficient providers. OBJECTIVES To develop claims-based measures of low-value services, examine service use (and associa...

A Framework for Effective Management in Child Care Centers

Given the importance of care centers in helping with the children’s developmental processes, the management style and model employed therein becomes crucial in terms of its effectiveness. To define a framework for effective management in child care centers, a set of 163 articles/documents was reviewed and 55 of them, meeting the predetermined criteria, were identified. By synthesizing the findi...

a framework for guiding patient care

Measuring Brand Value in an Equilibrium Framework

W propose a structural approach to measuring brand and subbrand value using observational data. Brand value is defined as the difference in equilibrium profit between the brand in question and its counterfactual unbranded equivalent on search attributes. Our model allows us to make this computation rigorously, taking into account competitors’ and retailers’ reactions in the real and counterfact...

Measuring the Value of Information Technology – A Framework

Over the years there has been an increasing call for understanding, measuring and managing value of IT in the overall business context. Increasing adoption of IT with its ever expanding influence on what the enterprises can do with new technological pieces has increased the value of IT to such an extent that most enterprises now regard IT as central to their business strategy. However, in the w...