Developing hospital efficiency-cost control measures.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide hospital managers with important knowledge and skills in developing efficiency measures that hospital can use as guidelines in monitoring and controlling operational costs. Efficiency measures are judgmental and comparative. Cost and quantity are the variables in the computation of efficiency measures but it is very important to integrate these variables with quality. A hospital is efficient if it can render quality service at the most cost effective manner.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- World hospitals and health services : the official journal of the International Hospital Federation
دوره 38 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002