This article describes the development and evolution of governing boards and summarizes critical findings from a research study on hospital governing boards. The purpose of the research was to examine factors that measure performance of governing boards and the relationship of governing board effectiveness to the organizational performance of hospitals. Board leaders from 64 nonprofit hospitals...

Introduction: The recent availability of multisensor systems in key image application areas, such as remote and airborne sensing, motivated researchers to work on image fusion in general and pixel level image fusion in particular. Thus a plethora of pixel level fusion algorithms have been developed [1,2,3] with different performance and complexity characteristics. Fusion performance is mainly a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke education, 1 of 8 endorsed stroke performance measures, consists of 5 specific subcomponents: risk factors, stroke warning signs, emergency medical service activation, physician follow-up, and discharge medications. We identified predictors of stroke education performance measure compliance in the Michigan Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry. METHODS Da...

BACKGROUND A reduction in hospital readmissions may improve quality and reduce costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has initiated a national effort to measure and publicly report on the conduct of discharge planning. We know little about how U.S. hospitals perform on the current discharge metrics, the factors that underlie better performance, and whether better performance is r...

Résumé Description. La mesure des résultats de la technologie d’assistance est complexe car de nombreux facteurs (p. ex., environnement et modèle de prestation des services) influent sur l’utilisation de la technologie. But. Se basant sur l’exemple de la mesure des résultats d’un logiciel de prédiction de mots, cet article présente une méthode pour mesurer les résultats de la technologie d’assi...

More years ago than I care to admit, I spent many not-so-unpleasant hours standing on a street corner with one eye on the controller settings and the other on traffic, trying to optimize the controller settings by making minute adjustments to initial, extension, and maximum intervals. Even when I thought the settings could be no further improved, I worried that my “fine tuning” might not yield ...

in recent years, the balanced score card (bsc) has been the focus of considerable methodology for strategic cost management in management accounting area since it was originally proposed by kaplan ,r.s. and norton, d.p. in 1992. bsc is an approach to performance measurement based on both financial and nonfinancial information from four perspectives which are called financial, customer, internal...

BACKGROUND Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending. However, many clinicians believe that readmission metrics may unfairly penalize low-mortality hospitals because mortality and readmission are competing risks. The objective of this study is to compare hospital ranking based on ...