BACKGROUND Increasing demand for baccalaureate-prepared nurses has led to rapid growth in the number of baccalaureate-granting programs, and to concerns about educational quality and potential effects on productivity of the graduating nursing workforce. We examined the association of individual productivity of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse with the ranking of the degree-granting institution. ...

Were the changes found in the first year of the prospective payment system (PPS) one-time changes that attenuated as hospitals gained familiarity with the system? The results of this research show that, over time, discharges to home (self-care) continued to decrease, discharges to home health agencies continued to increase, but transfers and discharges to skilled nursing facilities or intermedi...

introduction surgical site infection is a common side effect of surgeries that causes an increase in morbidity, mortality , patient length of stay in the hospital and hospital expenses. quality management as an organizational strategy helps improve working processes and enhance hospital productivity. method this study aimed to examine the impact of applying a quality management technique on red...

In this article, the author examines trends in determinants of total hospital facility revenues, expenses, and net profits during the period 1977-89. Measures of change in transaction prices are developed, which enable an analysis of trends in real hospital outputs and total factor productivity. The main source of hospital spending growth in excess of the gross national product is identified as...

One of the most important and vexing issues in health care concerns the cost to improve quality. Unfortunately, quality is difficult to measure and potentially confounded with productivity. Rather than relying on clinical or process measures, we infer quality at hospitals in greater Los Angeles from the revealed preference of pneumonia patients. We then decompose the joint contribution of quali...

Efforts to boost productivity in hospital wards will fail unless acute nurses and other key staff are involved from the beginning, suggests an RCN policy briefing.

The decentralisation of Australia's centralised wage fixation system has been seen as providing opportunities for employers and trade unions to tailor working arrangements to suit the needs of the workplace and to provide better paid long-term jobs. This paper details the productivity bargaining between the Private Hospitals' Association of Queensland and The Australian Workers' Union in 1995-9...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with research productivity among pediatric hospitalists. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional online survey of pediatric hospitalists recruited from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine from May to August 2009. We used abstract presentations at a national meeting (intermediate outcome) and 22 first-author peer-reviewed manu...

productivity of hospital beds: evaluation of inpatient bed days in the west azerbaijan selected hospitals     nabilu b [1] , mohebbi i [2] , alinezhad h [3]     received: 19 apr, 2012 accepted: 20 jun , 2012    abstract  background & aims: all over the world, healthcare systems are under intense pressure to improve their performance . the cost of healthcare is a critical issue for employers and...