The importance of efficient utilization of expensive imaging equipment has been brought to full public attention by the current health care debates. In particular, the use of imaging equipments such as Computed Tomography (CT), Mammography (MG) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is known to contribute to the rising cost with health care. Though medical practices and research attempt to addres...

job satisfaction (js) plays important role as a competitive advantage in organizations especially in helth industry. recruitment and retention of human resources are persistent problems associated with this field. most of the researchs have focused on the job satisfaction factors and few of researches have noticed about its effects on productivity. however, little researchs have focused on the ...

Economic burden of cardiomyopathy in Canada 2018 to 2021: opportunity for cost avoidance through pharmaceutical innovation. Brett J Skinner, PhD ABSTRACT This study estimated the economic illness associated with (CM), by hospital cost, productivity loss,

CONTEXT One of the challenges in the fiercely competitive space of health organizations is responding to customers and building trust and satisfaction in them in the shortest time, with best quality and highest productivity. Hence the aim of this study is to survey the impact of customer relationship management (CRM) on organizational productivity, customer loyalty, satisfaction and trust in se...

introduction: the appropriate-use optimization of the limited spaces of the iranian hospitals is believed to be a crucial step towards promoting the efficiency of these healthcare centers. the issue determining the optimization patterns of the layout of units has led to a lot of efforts by researchers as it increases the efficiency of the hospitals through patients’ improvement, changing the lo...

AIM this study reported various factors associated with a higher probability of HIV patients drop out, and potential productivity loss due to HIV patients drop out. METHODS we analyzed data of 658 HIV patients from a database in a main referral hospital in Bandung city, West Java, Indonesia from 2007 to 2013. First, we utilized probit regression analysis and included, among others, the follow...

The increasing focus on high performance, patient-centered, team-based care calls for a strategy to evaluate cost-effective primary care. The trend toward physician practice consolidation further challenges the primary care health care system. Productivity measures establish provider value and help inform decision making regarding resource allocation in this evolving health care system. In this...

CONTEXT Prior research has faulted the US News and World Report hospital specialty rankings for excessive reliance on reputation, a subjective measure of a hospital's performance. OBJECTIVE To determine whether and to what extent reputation correlates with objective measures of research productivity among cancer hospitals. DESIGN A retrospective observational study. SETTING Automated sear...

Good morning. When CEDA approached me about speaking today, I was asked to concentrate on longer-term developments that will have a bearing on Australia’s future economic performance. Such an offer seemed hard to refuse, and so I looked around for a topic on which I could hopefully say something of interest. Given the impressive productivity growth that has been experienced over the past decade...