BACKGROUND This study is based on competitive dynamics theory, and discusses competitive actions (including their implementation requirements, strategic orientation, and action complexity) that influence hospitals' performance, while also meeting the requirements of Taiwan's "global budget" insurance payment policy. METHODS In order to investigate the possible actions of hospitals, the study ...

To provide a reference for evaluating public non-profit hospitals in the new environment of medical reform, we established a performance evaluation system for public non-profit hospitals. The new "input-output" performance model for public non-profit hospitals is based on four primary indexes (input, process, output and effect) that include 11 sub-indexes and 41 items. The indicator weights wer...

conclusions the findings showed the moderate preparedness of the hospitals in the northern provinces to deal with disasters. case presentation this cross-sectional study was carried in 2011 and all of the hospitals which were located in the northern areas of iran were investigated through the census method. the data collection instruments were self-administered managers’ awareness questionnaire...

BACKGROUND Process performance measures are increasingly used to assess and reward hospital quality. The impact of small hospital case volumes on such measures is not clear. METHODS Using data from the Hospital Quality Alliance, we examined hospital performance for 8 publicly reported process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from 3761 US hospitals during the reporting period of ...

Hospital readmission rates are increasingly being used as signals of hospital performance and a basis for hospital reimbursement. However for some interventions their interpretation may be complicated by differential patient survival rates after the initial intervention. If patient characteristics are not perfectly observable and hospitals differ in their mortality rates, then hospitals with lo...

introduction: medical information is a major tool in planning, coordinating and evaluating the delivered healthcare. in addition, documentation of medical records is useful for legal, educational and research purposes, managerial planning and accreditation. the purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for incompleteness of medical records and the physicians and managers' views in this r...

Background & Aims: Hospitals as the largest and most costly operational units in health care system have special importance. The rate of their efficiency can be used as a criterion for the measurement of performance and productivity of resource consumption in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to determine the technical efficiency of general hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Scien...