Association Between Surgeons’ Technical Efficiency and Hospital Revenue

Surgeons' non-technical skills.

The importance of non-technical skills to surgical performance is gaining wide acceptance. This article discusses the core cognitive and social skills categories thought to underpin medical knowledge and surgical expertise, and describes the rise of non-technical skill models of assessment in surgery. Behavior rating systems such as NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) have been developed ...

Shared savings change dynamics between a hospital and surgeons.

on the relationship between linguistic, visual-spatial, interpersonal intelligences and technical translation quality

abstract this study tried to investigate whether there was any significant relationship between technical translation quality of the senior english translation students and their levels of verbal-linguistic, visual-spatial and interpersonal intelligences. in order to investigate the research questions, the researcher selected a hundred senior english translation students from three universitie...

The association between quality of care and technical efficiency in long-term care.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the association between quality of care and technical (productive) efficiency in institutional long-term care wards for the elderly. SETTING One hundred and fourteen public health centre hospitals and residential homes in Finland. STUDY DESIGN Wards were divided into two categories according to their rank in the quality distribution, considering 41 quality variables sep...

The Most Revenue Efficiency with Price Uncertainty

    In this paper, a new revenue efficiency data envelopment analysis (RE-DEA) approach is considered for finding the most revenue efficient unit with price uncertainty in both optimistic and pessimistic perspectives. The optimistic and pessimistic perspectives use efficient frontier and inefficient frontier, respectively. An integrated model is introduced to find decision making units (DMUs) t...