The development of statistical indicators for monitoring performance throughout the National Health Service began in 1981. In recent years, computer software packages containing performance indicators have been amended to include Health and Social Services Boards in Northern Ireland. Although this information is available to anyone with an interest in service provision, the main purpose of the ...

BACKGROUND Frailty and sarcopenia are frequent conditions in the elderly and are related to inactivity and functionality. However, little is known about the influence of the sarcopenia indicators on the frailty profile or their functional implications. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the indirect indicators of sarcopenia and functionality influence the frailty profile in elderly subjects. MET...

This paper presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programmes on Acehnese children during the post-tsunami recovery. The study, conducted from June to August 2010, examined the impact of microfinance programming six years after the tsunami. The sample consisted of 185 microfinance participants, with a comparison group of 192 individuals who did not participate in microfin...

—Performance measurement and analysis is crucial for steering the organization to realizing its strategic and operational goals. Relevant performance indicators and their relationships to goals and activities need to be determined and analyzed. Current organization modeling approaches do not reflect this in an adequate way. This paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting a framework for model...

having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. in this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

Introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. The aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identif...

Performance measurement and analysis is crucial for steering the organization to realizing its strategic and operational goals. Relevant performance indicators and their relationships to goals and activities need to be determined and analyzed. Current organization modeling approaches do not reflect this in an adequate way. This paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting a framework for modeli...

the aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. to do so,based on the four aspects of the balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(kpi) were selected by a committee of experts. then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focu...