Benchmarking In Health Care
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| Author | : Joint Commission Resources, Inc |
| Publisher | : Joint Commission Resources |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1599406160 |
Benchmarking--comparing one's performance against internal or external sources--can be the cornerstone of many performance improvement initiatives in health care organizations. These projects are carried out for a variety of reasons: to enhance patient outcomes, streamline patient care delivery systems, reduce costs, and comply with local, state, or national initiatives, including accreditation and health care reform requirements. For organizations to successfully accomplish these objectives, they must be able to benchmark their performance within their facilities, over time, and against other organizations. Benchmarking in Health Care is an updated edition of a JCR best seller that provides organizations with step-by-step instructions to successfully design and implement benchmarking projects in their facilities as part of comprehensive performance improvement programs. Topics covered include the following: * Defining internal and external benchmarking * Complying with Joint Commission and Joint Commission * International benchmarking-related standards * Planning and organizing a benchmarking project, including gaining leadership support and assembling and organizing a team * Choosing appropriate benchmarking partners * Identifying and using appropriate global benchmarking databases * Collecting, analyzing, benchmarking, and presenting data * Using benchmarking data to drive improvement * Case studies from organizations around the world that are using benchmarking projects as integral components of performance improvement initiatives Help your staff to design and implement a successful benchmarking project in your organization!
| Author | : Yasar A. Ozcan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2014-07-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1489974725 |
This new edition continues to emphasize the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to create optimization-based benchmarks within hospitals, physician group practices, health maintenance organizations, nursing homes and other health care delivery organizations. Suitable for graduate students learning DEA applications in health care as well as for practicing administrators, it is divided into two sections covering methods and applications. Section I considers efficiency evaluations using DEA; returns to scale; weight restricted (multiplier) models; non-oriented or slack-based models, including in this edition two versions of non-controllable variable models and categorical variable models; longitudinal (panel) evaluations and the effectiveness dimension of performance evaluation. A new chapter then looks at new and advanced models of DEA, including super-efficiency, congestion DEA, network DEA, and dynamic network models. Mathematical formulations of various DEA models are placed in end-of-chapter appendices. Section II then looks at health care applications within particular settings, chapter-by-chapter, including hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Other chapters then explore home health care and home health agencies; dialysis centers, community mental health centers, community-based your services, organ procurement organizations, aging agencies and dental providers; DEA models to evaluate provider performance for specific treatments, including stroke, mechanical ventilation and perioperative services. A new chapter then examines international-country-based applications of DEA in health care in 16 different countries, along with OECD and multi-country studies. Most of the existing chapters in this section were expanded with recent applications. Included with the book is online access to a learning version of DEA Solver software, written by Professor Kaoru Tone, which can solve up to 50 DMUs for various DEA models listed in the User’s Guide at the end of the book.
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 2003-04-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9264100202 |
This book on poverty and health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a broad-scope “pro-poor” health approach for action within the health system and beyond it. It is for development practitioners in the area of health issues.
| Author | : Yasar A. Ozcan |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2007-12-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0387754482 |
Hugely relevant in today’s world of healthcare performance management, this comprehensive work applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific tools for performance evaluation. Most important, the book provides health care practitioners and administrators with information of what is lacking in specific aspects of performance and then outlines the ways how these performance inadequacies can be improved.
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| Publisher | : Joint Commission Resources |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780866886758 |
| Author | : Robert C. Camp |
| Publisher | : Quality Resources |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
The book that started it all is still a best-seller! Benchmarking is the master key to becoming the best. This groundbreaking reference is for middle managers in industry, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies, as well as quality improvement projects. Detailed examples show you how to relate benchmarking to your own circumstances. Reference guides help you get started. Case histories provide examples of actual benchmarking investigations from beginning to end. the author's personal tips will allow you, with minimum effort, to effectively launch your quest for the best.
| Author | : Arthur G. Tweet |
| Publisher | : Productivity Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1998-01-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This guide offers a detailed look at each step in the benchmarking process and provides practical information to accomplish your goals. With a complete explanation of the 4 phases and 12 steps of a benchmarking venture, this book serves as a reference and supplies checklists highlighting actions to be taken during each stage. Four detailed examples provide different perspectives of benchmarking projects.
| Author | : Norman Daniels |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780195102376 |
The American health system has been critiqued widely in recent years for its many flaws. A common complaint has been that our system is unfair, a concern that comes from providers as well as consumers and from both public and private sectors. This bookaims to develop a framework for measuring various health reform proposals and current trends in relation to underlying social values in the U.S. In so doing, it seeks to expose social values that are at stake in current and future changes. At the heart of this book is the question: If the current situation is perceived to be unfair, will the future improve or worsen our situation? Targeted primarily for policy makers in government and throughout the health sector, this book will also stimulate graduate students in the health and social sciences. A wide audience will find the book of interest in providing a different perspective as to how current trends and specific legislative and policy proposals stack up against the authors' ten benchmarks of fairness. The book makes very limited use of illustrations, although tables provide understandable summaries of the concepts and their application in scoring proposals and trends. References are ample and pertinent. This is a stimulating and provocative work that shifts our focus to the collective social values at stake in an evolving health system. The book argues that our current system is unfair both in comparison to our values and the approaches taken throughout the rest of the industrialized world. Its sobering message is that the gap between what we value and what we have will likely increase until we recognize what is at stake.
| Author | : Mohamed Zairi |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2010-02-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136426566 |
Benchmarking for Best Practice uses up-to-the-minute case-studies of individual companies and industry-wide quality schemes to show how and why implementation has succeeded. For any practitioner wanting to establish best practice in a wide variety of business areas, this book makes essential reading. It is also an ideal textbook on the applications of TQM since it describes concepts, covers definitions and illustrates the applications with first-hand examples. Professor Mohamed Zairi is an international expert and leading figure in the field of benchmarking. His pioneering work in this area led to the implementation of sixty comprehensive benchmarking projects in companies worldwide. He has written several books on this subject including 'Practical Benchmarking' in 1992.
| Author | : Cynthia Barnard |
| Publisher | : Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Benchmarking (Management) |
| ISBN | : 9781578398652 |
" Gathering meaningful data is vital in the era of "pay for performance," and payers and agencies are calling for more transparency in quality improvement data. The need for benchmarking is clearly growing, and many hospital staff are being asked to run benchmarking projects for the first time. They don't know where or how to begin, or what data to collect. They have fundamental benchmarking questions such as: • What data should we gather? • When should we collect it? • What do we do with it once we've collected it? Get up-to-date answers to all your benchmarking questions. Help is here with HCPro's new book, Benchmarking Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers. This resource takes healthcare managers through the benchmarking process, step-by-step. It explains how to implement benchmarking programs that use valid data to answer a variety of questions, make accurate comparisons, and measure a hospital's overall performance, both internally and against facilities nationwide. Readers will also learn when not to benchmark, and how to avoid commonly made mistakes that can affect results. This easy-to-use handbook and CD-ROM also features • explanations of common benchmarking terms and concepts • step-by-step instructions for getting started • procedures, forms, checklists, and examples for finding and collecting applicable data case studies • extensive resource lists tips for accurately comparing benchmarking data.
