Introduction Hospital cost analysis is an essential tool relating the inputs of resources in monetary terms to the outputs of services provided by hospitals. Cost information is part of the basic information needed by hospital managers and national policy makers to enable them to make informed decisions to enhance performance of hospitals in a health care delivery system and for efficient alloc...

We propose Confusions over Time (CoT), a novel generative framework which facilitates a multi-granular analysis of the decision making process. The CoT not only models the confusions or error properties of individual decision makers and their evolution over time, but also allows us to obtain diagnostic insights into the collective decision making process in an interpretable manner. To this end,...

Received for publication September 12, 2000, and accepted for publication May 31, 2001. From the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Reprint requests to Dr. Genevieve Matanoski, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 850, Baltimore, MD 21202. During the 1990s policy-makers, including the US Con...

the registry of myocardial infarctions (mi registry) is a national registry in iran that collects and reports the data on myocardial infarctions. its main advantage is that it covers the whole country and is mandatory for hospitals to register the mi cases in it. then, the qualified individuals at the provincial and national levels can get intended reports and make appropriate decisions. such r...

DIRECT-INFO aims to create a basic system for semi-automatic sponsorship tracking in the area of media monitoring. Its main goal is to offer an integrated system combining the output of basic media analysis modules to semantically meaningful trend analysis results, which shall give executive managers and policy makers a solid basis for their strategic decisions. In this paper we put a special e...

In many countries, policymakers have used urban densification strategies in an effort to create more sustainable cities. However, spatial density as a concept remains unclear and complex. Little information exists about how density is considered by decision makers, including the different kinds of density and the wider political and economic context in which decisions are made: who makes densit...

Today's corporate environment requires managers to be excellent decision makers. Their ability to make fast, widely-supported, and effective decisions will, in large part, shape the performance of their firms. In this article, we describe two cognitive systems that influence decision making. System 1 refers to a process that is fast, effortless, and intuitive. System 2 is a slow, controlled, an...

background the lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (lmics). there is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (idp). the objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...

Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...