Efficiency, Organizational

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • ACC 2009 survey results and recommendations: Addressing the cardiology workforce crisis A report of the ACC board of trustees workforce task force. 
  • Achieving palliative care research efficiency through defining and benchmarking performance metrics. 
  • Aligning payment reform and delivery innovation in emergency care. 
  • Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. 
  • Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness. 
  • Build or remodel? Preparing facilities for today's and tomorrow's needs. 
  • Changing medical doctor productivity and its affecting factors in rural China. 
  • Characteristics, performance measures, and in-hospital outcomes of the first one million stroke and transient ischemic attack admissions in get with the guidelines-stroke. 
  • Comparison of patient flow and provider efficiency of two delivery strategies for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in Western Kenya: a time and motion study. 
  • Components and Trends in Door to Treatment Times for Endovascular Therapy in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Costing in Radiology and Health Care: Rationale, Relativity, Rudiments, and Realities. 
  • Creating an evidence-based practice environment: one hospital's journey. 
  • Determining VA physician requirements through empirically based models. 
  • Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness. 
  • Developing a high-efficiency operating room for total joint arthroplasty in an academic setting. 
  • Developing a school functioning index for middle schools. 
  • Development and initial testing of the stroke rapid-treatment readiness tool. 
  • Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts? 
  • Does decentralisation improve human resource management in the health sector? A case study from China. 
  • Effect of smoking status on productivity loss. 
  • Effectiveness of Mentoring Programs for Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review 
  • Effects of a structured heart failure program on quality of life and frequency of hospital admission in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Efficiency of colorectal cancer care among veterans: analysis of treatment wait times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. 
  • Electronic Health Records Are Here to Stay. 
  • Establishing a framework for improving the quality of clinical and translational research. 
  • Evaluation of an infrared/radiofrequency equipment-tracking system in a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Financial implications of a model heart failure disease management program for providers, hospital, healthcare systems, and payer perspectives. 
  • Focused anesthesia interview resource to improve efficiency and quality. 
  • Health informatics-enabled workflow redesign and evaluation. 
  • Hospital drug formularies and use of hospital services. 
  • Hospital text paging communication as a surgical quality improvement initiative. 
  • Impact of business infrastructure on financial metrics in departments of surgery. 
  • Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays: a preliminary report. 
  • Implementing advanced access in a family medicine practice: a new paradigm in primary care. 
  • Implications of practice setting on clinical outcomes and efficiency of care in the delivery of physical therapy services. 
  • Improving Congestive Heart Failure Care with a Clinical Decision Unit. 
  • Improving health care efficiency and quality using tablet personal computers to collect research-quality, patient-reported data. 
  • Improving the Efficiency of Care for Pediatric Patients Hospitalized With Asthma. 
  • Linking process to outcome: are we training pediatricians to meet evolving health care needs? 
  • Making It Work for Everyone: An Evolving Reference Service. 
  • Mandated treatment in the community for people with mental disorders. 
  • Mediation of employment discrimination disputes involving persons with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • No mission<-->no margin: it's that simple. 
  • Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology. 
  • Operating Room Delays: Meaningful Use in Electronic Health Record. 
  • Operating room debriefings. 
  • Optimizing operational efficiencies in early phase trials: The Pediatric Trials Network experience. 
  • Physician Well-Being: Organizational Strategies for Physician Burnout. 
  • Procedure Delegation by Attending Surgeons Performing Concurrent Operations in Academic Medical Centers: Balancing Safety and Efficiency. 
  • Productivity of Veterans Health Administration laboratories: a College of American Pathologists Laboratory Management Index Program (LMIP) study. 
  • Rates of return from hospital conversions. 
  • Regional systems of care demonstration project: Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator: design and methodology. 
  • Relative inefficiencies in production between solo and group practice physicians. 
  • Revolution at the library service desk. 
  • Safeguarding the Public's Health: Ethical Nursing. 
  • Solo versus group practice in the medical profession: the influence of malpractice risk. 
  • Staff interaction strategies that optimize delivery of transitional care in a skilled nursing facility: a multiple case study. 
  • Standards for measures used for public reporting of efficiency in health care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes research and the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • The Impact of Electronic Medical Record Implementation on Labor Cost and Productivity at an Outpatient Orthopaedic Clinic. 
  • The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems. 
  • The cost of inefficiency in US hospitals, 1985-1997. 
  • The use of technology for urgent clinician to clinician communications: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • The waiting game: facing the consequences. 
  • Trends in reperfusion strategies, door-to-needle and door-to-balloon times, and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Turning Data Into Information: Opportunities to Advance Rehabilitation Quality, Research, and Policy. 
  • Utility of Daily Mobile Tablet Use for Residents on an Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Inpatient Service. 
  • What do patients say about emergency departments in online reviews? A qualitative study. 
  • What works. Surgeons generate "clean bills" from the point of care. 
  • Would greater transparency and uniformity of health care prices benefit poor patients? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Halabi, Susan, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Murphy, Beverly, Prof Library Staff, Medical Center Library & Archives
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society