Waiting list statistics as performance indicators: Observations on their use in hospital management
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Waiting list statistics as performance indicators: observations on their use in hospital management.
Improvements in data collection and the types of statistics collected have enhanced the usefulness of waiting list statistics as a measure of hospital performance. But these changes are not sufficient for waiting list statistics to be used effectively for management purposes. The statistics need to be viewed alongside activity data if clinicians and managers are to identify specific areas that ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Health Review
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0156-5788
DOI: 10.1071/ah980015