Download or read book Guide to Benchmarking Healthcare written by Arthur G. Tweet and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Benchmarking Basics written by Cynthia Barnard and published by Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 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.
Download or read book Benchmarking in Health Care written by Joint Commission Resources, Inc and published by Joint Commission Resources. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Quality Health Care written by Robert C. Lloyd and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this book will serve as your guide for planning and implementing a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces influencing the demand for quality reform, how to listen to the voice of the customer, and the characteristics of quality that customers value most. You'll also learn how to select and define indicators to collect data and how to organize data into a dashboard that can provide feedback on your progress toward quality measurement. Finally, this book shows you how to analyze your data by detailing how variation lives in your data, and whether this variation is acceptable. Case studies are provided to demonstrate how quality measurement can be applied to clinical as well as operational aspects of healthcare delivery.
Download or read book Benchmarking Success written by Gregory S. Feltenberger and published by Medical Group Management Association/Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benchmarking through the interpretation and communication of medical practice data is a necessity in today's health care environment, but how does a practice truly measure and evaluate its "performance"?
Download or read book Access Managers Guide to Benchmarking Patient Satisfaction written by American Health Consultants and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benchmarking Success written by Gregory Feltenberger and published by Medical Group Management Association/Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practice's long-term success is directly related to its ability to identify, predict, and adjust for changes. Benchmarking, when used properly, is the best tool for overcoming these challenges.
Download or read book Benchmarking in Health Care written by Robert G. Gift and published by Amer Hospital Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, step-by-step guide to using a unique 4-phase collaborative approach to conduct benchmarking studies and continuously improve quality and care.
Download or read book Pocket Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare written by Reneè Roberts-Turner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text will act as a quick quality improvement reference and resource for every role within the healthcare system including physicians, nurses, support staff, security, fellows, residents, therapists, managers, directors, chiefs, and board members. It aims to provide a broad overview of quality improvement concepts and how they can be immediately pertinent to one's role. The editors have used a tiered approach, outlining what each role needs to lead a QI project, participate as a team member, set goals and identify resources to drive improvements in care delivery. Each section of the book targets a specific group within the healthcare organization. Pocket Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare will guide the individual, as well as the organization to fully engage all staff in QI, creating a safety culture, and ultimately strengthening care delivery.
Download or read book Practical Benchmarking The Complete Guide written by Mohamed Zairi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Bob Camp The business improvement topic and quality tool called benchmarking is becoming widely understood and broadly applied. There are now applica firms that tions in almost all segments of the economy including industrial either produce a product or a service, non-profit organizations such as healthcare, government and education. The approach is starting to spread around the globe with initiatives in Europe, Asia Pacific and South America. This is commendable and reassuring and must show that there is significant interest in the approach and that it works. What is missing, however, are books and reference material that are not solely prepared in the US where benchmarking started. Theses would include examples of applications relevant to the local area and industries. They would include references to articles written about benchmarking appearing in local publications. In this fashion those interested would have near hand case histories of the use of benchmarking and therefore become encouraged to use the technique. Zairi and Leonard have done the benchmarking community a real service by documenting the European view and application of benchmark ing to a wide range of examples. But they have not stopped there. Their text includes treatment of a number of related facets of benchmarking that makes this a fairly thorough text.
Download or read book Practical Benchmarking The Complete Guide written by Mohamed Zairi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Bob Camp The business improvement topic and quality tool called benchmarking is becoming widely understood and broadly applied. There are now applica firms that tions in almost all segments of the economy including industrial either produce a product or a service, non-profit organizations such as healthcare, government and education. The approach is starting to spread around the globe with initiatives in Europe, Asia Pacific and South America. This is commendable and reassuring and must show that there is significant interest in the approach and that it works. What is missing, however, are books and reference material that are not solely prepared in the US where benchmarking started. Theses would include examples of applications relevant to the local area and industries. They would include references to articles written about benchmarking appearing in local publications. In this fashion those interested would have near hand case histories of the use of benchmarking and therefore become encouraged to use the technique. Zairi and Leonard have done the benchmarking community a real service by documenting the European view and application of benchmark ing to a wide range of examples. But they have not stopped there. Their text includes treatment of a number of related facets of benchmarking that makes this a fairly thorough text.
Download or read book Practical Benchmarking The Complete Guide written by M. Zairi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Bob Camp The business improvement topic and quality tool called benchmarking is becoming widely understood and broadly applied. There are now applica firms that tions in almost all segments of the economy including industrial either produce a product or a service, non-profit organizations such as healthcare, government and education. The approach is starting to spread around the globe with initiatives in Europe, Asia Pacific and South America. This is commendable and reassuring and must show that there is significant interest in the approach and that it works. What is missing, however, are books and reference material that are not solely prepared in the US where benchmarking started. Theses would include examples of applications relevant to the local area and industries. They would include references to articles written about benchmarking appearing in local publications. In this fashion those interested would have near hand case histories of the use of benchmarking and therefore become encouraged to use the technique. Zairi and Leonard have done the benchmarking community a real service by documenting the European view and application of benchmark ing to a wide range of examples. But they have not stopped there. Their text includes treatment of a number of related facets of benchmarking that makes this a fairly thorough text.
Download or read book The Benchmarking Book written by Tim Stapenhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, step-by-step guide to quality assurance and process improvement through benchmarking. It covers benchmarking across different industry areas, with detailed case studies to illustrate pitfalls and best practice.
Download or read book Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation written by Yasar A. Ozcan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Benchmarking written by Suzanne Wait and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
