Key factors that a hospital finance leader should focus on when considering a potential co-management agreement with physicians, in which the physicians are compensated at fair market value, include: Fee structure of the agreement. The quality metrics that will be used. Benchmarking to set appropriate targets for metrics. Historical performance against the metrics. Legal guidelines regarding su...

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Alternatively, if LoC denotes thèlines of code metric, then we have: Tightness = Tightness 0 LoC demonstrating that the abstraction of these metrics from rst order functions to higher{order functions does not prevent us from returning to the original rst order versions, if we so choose. More work is required to investigate the notational potential of this approach. 10 Conclusion We have introdu...

the aim of this study was to analyze the impact of organizational learning and marketing metrics on the marketing performance in the elon plast company of kermanshah province. it is a functional purpose study with descriptive – survey method. the statistical population includes 100 employees of elon plast company in kermanshah province. a sample of 80 people was chosen using cochran formula. da...

Dukhanin and colleagues’ taxonomy of metrics for patient engagement at the organizational and system levels has great potential for supporting more careful and useful evaluations of this ever-growing phenomenon. This commentary highlights the central importance to the taxonomy of metrics assessing the extent of meaningful participation in decision-making by patients, consumers and community mem...

According to the Water Framework Directive (WFD), biological quality elements constitute basis for assessing ecological status of surface waters. Biological communities are good indicators water because they reflect environmental conditions over time and do not require frequent sampling. The main aims were assess trophic Lake Visovac (Krka River hydrosystem, South Croatia) using phytoplankton t...

Nature-based shoreline protection provides a welcome class of adaptations to promote ecological resilience in the face climate change. Along coastlines, living shorelines are among preferred adaptation strategies both reduce erosion and provide functions. As an alternative armoring, viewed favorably coastal managers some private property owners, but they have yet undergo thorough examination ho...