PURPOSES To assess the relationship between hospitals' X-inefficiency levels and overall care quality based on the National Quality Forum's 27 safe practices score and to improve the analytic strategy for assessing X-inefficiency. METHODOLOGY The 2005 versions of the American Hospital Association and Leapfrog Group's annual surveys were the basis of the study. Additional case mix indices and ...

We review traits of reusable clinical data and offer a typology of clinical repositories with a range of known examples. Sources of clinical data suitable for research can be classified into types reflecting the data's institutional origin, original purpose, level of integration and governance. Primary data nearly always come from research studies and electronic medical records. Registries coll...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...

Communication is critical within healthcare; however, breakdowns in the patient-clinician relationship have been identified in such core aspects as the ability for inpatients to identify their physicians. With increased adoption and use of new information technologies that support visual content, hospitals can begin to look at the potential of photographic aids to improve communication between ...

Object Matching (Entity resolution) is a critical data integration task and aims at identifying semantically corresponding objects (records, instances) in one or several data sources. A typical example is the redundant and heterogeneous representation of customers in different enterprise databases. Finding corresponding customer representations is a key task, e.g., for customer relationship man...