Levels and causes of mortality in mothers and babies are intrinsically linked, occurring at the same time and often to the same mother-baby dyad, although mortality rates are substantially higher in babies. Measuring levels, trends and causes of maternal, neonatal and foetal mortality are important for understanding priority areas for interventions and tracking the success of interventions at t...

At present, bid evaluation in China mainly adopts the method of traditional comprehensive scoring. And the method of analytic hierarchy process or fuzzy synthetic assessment is also in common use. However, those methods have their own weaknesses, e.g., having a strong subjectivity, lacking in analysis of quantitative indicators, and being unable to reflect the defects of the bidders and reasons...

INTRODUCTION Allocate fixed resources among competing users is a challenge in terms of hospital management in order to obtain the best performance considering strategic objectives. In order to address this need, a system of evaluation in an important research and teaching hospital was designed. This study describes resource allocation criteria in a hospital focusing on the evaluation system and...

BACKGROUND Poverty is multi dimensional. Beyond the quantitative and tangible issues related to inadequate income it also has equally important social, more intangible and difficult if not impossible to quantify dimensions. In 2009, we explored these social and relativist dimension of poverty in five communities in the South of Ghana with differing socio economic characteristics to inform the d...

OBJECTIVES to adapt and validate, by expert consensus, a set of indicators used to assess the sterilization process of dental, medical and hospital supplies to be used in PHC services. METHOD qualitative methodological study performed in two stages. The first stage included a focal group composed of experts to adapt the indicators to be used in PHC. In the second stage, the indicators were va...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key performance indicators for hospital information systems (HIS) that can be used for HIS benchmarking. METHODS A Delphi survey with one qualitative and two quantitative rounds. Forty-four HIS experts from health care IT practice and academia participated in all three rounds. RESULTS Seventy-seven performance indicators were identified and organized into eight ca...

This paper proposes an integrated modelling framework for the analysis of manufacturing systems that can increase the capacity of modelling tools for rapidly creating a structured database with multiple detail levels and thus obtain key performance indicators (KPIs) that highlight possible areas for improvement. The method combines five important concepts: hierarchical structure, quantitative/ ...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to scrutinize Public- Private Partnership (PPP) models in public hospitals of different countries based on performance indicators in order to se-lect appropriated models for Iran hospitals. METHODS In this mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study, systematic review and expert panel has been done to identify varied models of PPP as well as performance i...

We present here a typology of four forms of communication between posts and comments on blogs. They are described using different kinds of indicators, combining qualitative ethnographic approaches and quantitative social network analysis, showing the diversity of ways to produce one’s social identity.