3 Introduction 4 Overview of the Health System 5 Hospital System 7 Poverty, Burden of Disease, and Hospital Beds 8 Expenditures for Curative Services 10 Methods to Assess Hospital Performance 11 Hospital’s Capacity and Utilization 13 Hospital Performance 15 Discussion 16 Implications for Management 19 Implications for Policy 20 Limitations 20 Conclusions 21 References 22

1. Cardiovascular Surgery Specialist, Master in Public Policy Evaluation-UFC, Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Dr. Carlos Alberto Studart Gomes/SESA, Incor Criança, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. 2. PhD, Professor of the Master in Public Policy Evaluation Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. 3. Professor of the Master in Public Policy Evaluation Federal University of C...

Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mongan Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Manageme...

Background and Objectives: Constant monitoring of healthcare organizations’ performance is an integral part of informed health policy-making. Several hospital performance assessment methods have been proposed in the literature. Pabon Lasso Model offers a fast and convenient method for comparative evaluation of hospital performance. This study aimed to evaluate the relative performance of hospit...

BACKGROUND Governments often create policies that rely on implementation by arms length organizations and require practice changes on the part of different segments of the health care system without understanding the differences in and complexities of these agencies. In 2000, in response to publicity about the shortening length of postpartum hospital stay, the Ontario government created a unive...

OBJECTIVE Hepatitis B vaccination (HBV) is unlike any other immunization series because it can be initiated in the hospital nursery. The objective of this study was to describe how hospital nurseries develop HBV policies and to describe the sources of information used for learning about national HBV recommendations. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted on a national random...

© Policy Press 2015. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Sarto, F, Veronesi, G, Kirkpatrick, I and Cuccurullo, C (2015) Exploring Regionalism in Public Management Reforms: The Case of the Italian Hospital Sector. Policy and Politics, is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/0305...

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to create and implement a program, Kosair Children's Hospital's No Hit Zone, which trains health care workers in de-escalation techniques to address parental disruptive behaviors and physical discipline of children commonly encountered in the hospital environment. METHODS The Child Abuse Task Force, a multidisciplinary group, along with key hospital administrators deve...