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Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency
Improving hospital efficiency is an emerging area of interest among policy makers in the new global economy’s healthcare system. To ensure accurate...
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Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Kee** the Blood Flowing
This article presents the application of the systemic problem structuring approach Viable System Diagnosis (VSD) within the Department of Orthopedic...
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To Care for a Patient as a Person: Emotional Architecture of the Environment
Access to healthcare is deeply conditioned by several social factors such as health policies and economic conditions but, undoubtedly, hospitals are...
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How efficient are surgical treatments in Japan? The case of a high-volume Japanese hospital
Japan’s healthcare expenditures, which are largely publicly funded, have been growing dramatically due to the rapid aging of the population as well...
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Technical efficiency and its influencing factors in Malaysian hospital pharmacy services
Various pharmacy services are offered in public health facilities, ranging from distributive activities (dispensing) to patient-oriented services...
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Efficiency evaluation and influencing factors analysis of fiscal and taxation policies: A method combining DEA-AHP and CD function
This paper combines the Cobb-Douglas (CD)with the method of Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process(DEA-AHP) and applies it to the...
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Modeling the role of efficiency for the equitable and effective distribution of donated food
Food banks operate with an objective to serve as many of food-insecure people as possible with the limited supply available to them. This paper...
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Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response
Malaysia was faced with a life-threatening crisis in combating COVID-19 with a number of positive cases reaching 5305 and 88 deaths by 18th April...
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Research on the Development Status and Tendency of General Hospital Buildings Under the Background of Smart City in the Future
With the rapid development of a new round of science and technology revolution in the world, Smart Medical has a profound impact on the healthcare...
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Efficiency, quality, and management practices in health facilities providing outpatient HIV services in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia
Few studies have assessed the efficiency and quality of HIV services in low-resource settings or considered the factors that determine both...
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Who Says Hospitals Are Ugly? Evolution and Trends of Architectures for Health
Access to healthcare is deeply conditioned by several social factors such as health policies and economic conditions but, undoubtedly, hospitals are...
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5G+ Smart Healthcare
The healthcare industry is an aggregation and integration of health-related sectors, including hospitals, medications, medical devices, and health...
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Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Related Assessment Tools Under Indian Perspective
The Building sector stands only after the Industrial sector as far as energy utilization and related CO2 emission criterions are concerned....
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A Data-Driven Pharmacists Scheduling Problem in a Pharmacy with Fairness Concerns
In a field investigation of the outpatient pharmacy of one hospital in Chengdu, we found it bears problems including the poor working experience of...
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Who should see the patient? on deviations from preferred patient-provider assignments in hospitals
In various organizations including hospitals, individuals are not forced to follow specific assignments, and thus, deviations from preferred task...
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Take Control of Finances
For many clinical leaders, the struggle to solve budget problems is frustrating and takes too much of their attention. To get control of finances, it...
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A novel network DEA-R model for evaluating hospital services supply chain performance
Assessing the efficiency of a supply chain (SC) is of great importance for managers and policy makers. For this aim, we propose a network data...
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Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation Development, Innovation, Change
This book explores the use of human-centered service design. Through a variety of case studies and best practices, it highlights ways to...
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Perceptions of Hospital Quality: A Case Study from Greece
This paper investigates what citizens perceive as the quality that hospitals must have by rating 28 quality indicators deriving from literature and...