...Laura Ikuma; Isabelina Nahmens; Amani Ahmad; Yasaswi Gudipudi; Vinod Dasa Purpose This article describes a framework for evaluating efficiency of OR procedures incorporating time measurement, personnel activity, and resource utilization using traditional industrial engineering tools of time study...

... Corp, Kansas City, MO) software built into the Cerner © EHR illustrates how alternative methods can assess physician workflow and efficiency (Cerner Corporation, 2018). Using a pre-defined algorithm, it can time-track clinician EHR activities 24 h/7 days a week and is able to organize recorded data...

...Satar Rezaei; Mohammad Hajizadeh; Bijan Nouri; Sina Ahmadi; Shahab Rezaeian; Yahya Salimi; Ali Kazemi Karyani Purpose The purpose of this paper (systematic review and meta-analysis) is to synthesize and analyze studies that assessed Iranian hospital efficiency. Design/methodology/approach...

... is to evaluate technical, allocative and economic efficiency in intensive care units (ICUs) of hospitals affiliated by Yazd University of Medical Sciences (YUMS) in 2015. Design/methodology/approach This was a descriptive, analytical study conducted in ICUs of seven training hospitals affiliated by YUMS...

... re-use rights only Efficiency Process redesign Service delivery PDSA Service quality Continuous quality improvement The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2003) has defined the parameters of quality healthcare as “doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right...

...Yoshinori Nakata; Tatsuya Yoshimura; Yuichi Watanabe; Hiroshi Otake; Giichiro Oiso; Tomohiro Sawa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of healthcare facilities that produce the most efficient inpatient orthopedic surgery using a large-scale medical claims database...

... quality improvement Efficiency Evidence-based practice Improvement models Patient no-show represents one of the concerns in outpatient scheduling context. It could negatively impact clinic efficiency and provider productivity which may consequently reduce patient access to care (Moore et al...

... – The authors collected data of all surgical procedures performed at Teikyo University Hospital from April 1 through September 30 in 2014 and 2015, and computed the surgeons’ Malmquist index (MI), efficiency change (EC) and technical change (TC) using non-radial and non-oriented Malmquist model under...

... institutions towards increasing access to quality HC and financing. Dr Augustine Adomah-Afari can be contacted at: augustineafari@yahoo.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Efficiency Risk management Quality health care Effectiveness Patient perception Finance/economics...

... of medical doctors who assisted surgery, and the time of operation from skin incision to closure. An output was defined as the surgical fee. The authors calculated surgeons’ efficiency scores using data envelopment analysis. Findings – The efficiency scores of each surgical specialty were significantly...

..., throughput and process efficiency, patient care and safety. This has been the initiative's driving force and the study's rationale. define the problems, clarify scope and define goals; measure the current performance, gather and compare data, refine problems/goals; analyse by identifying...

... in a service that was more efficient, flexible and able to cope with increased demand. Originality/value These changes meant that minimum waiting‐time targets were achieved, in particular waiting for myocardial perfusion imaging (reduced from 42 weeks in 2005 to two weeks by 2009). Changes allowed service...

... programmes of quality improvement in health care. In The Productive Ward Lean is developed into a programme which aims to give healthcare managers and practitioners the tools by which to make efficiency savings in the care they deliver. The Productive Ward was devised and developed by the National Health...

... programme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Care pathways Efficiency Lean thinking Management Organizational change Process management Sweden Health services Accessibility is considered by many experts to be an important service quality dimension and at the same time...

...Kris Siddharthan; Melissa Ahern; Robert Rosenman Estimates a total effects cost function using a national 1994 health maintenance organization (HMO) data set to examine and update findings related to HMO efficiency. The cost function controls for ownership characteristics (profit status...

... to be a movement to improve quality standards? Why is the market mechanism considered inadequate in this regard or are there particular issues of dissatisfaction that are being identified? Quality Health care Finance Accountability Stakeholders Efficiency “Quality” is by itself often a nebulous...

... for validity and reliability, and is explicitly change‐oriented. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Customer satisfaction Efficiency Hospitals Quality Questionnaires Sweden Interest in eliciting patients’ views on the quality of health care has increased substantially in recent years...

... simulation Efficiency Operational research applies scientific techniques to complex problems in the management of large systems of machines, men or materials. The approach relies on the technique of modelling which allows predictions and comparisons of outcomes of alternative decisions. In Britain...