Quantitative/Data Analysis Resources

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  Health Care Leader Action Guide: Understanding and Managing Variation

  February 01, 2011 - The guide includes practical steps to understanding and managing variation and a list of best practices and case studies as examples and resources for hospital leaders to use for implementing key interventions



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  Enhancing Effective Responses to Market Entry by Specialty Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers

  October 08, 2010 - What impact do single specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and retail clinics have on local market competition and cross-subsidization in community hospitals? This research details the effects of competitor entry in select service lines on the



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  Performance Measures for Health Care Systems

  October 08, 2010 - An overview of performance measures and their successful implementation provides a valuable template for enhancing any health care organization's performance measurement programs.



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  Workforce Shortages: Lessons Learned from Other Sectors

  October 08, 2010 - By investigating options pursued by other industries that have experience labor shortages, strategies are offered for addressing the health care industry's shortage of nurses.



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  Workforce Shortages: Lessons Learned from Other Sectors

  October 08, 2010 - By investigating options pursued by other industries that have experience labor shortages, strategies are offered for addressing the health care industry's shortage of nurses.



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  Pulling the Pieces Together: Consolidation and Integration in Health Care Systems

  October 08, 2010 - In a growing number of communities, market imperatives and consumer demands have become the driving force behind the centralization and consolidation of service lines in hospital health systems.



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  Measurement, Improvement and Transparency

  August 19, 2010 - Measurement, Improvement and Transparency



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  Measuring Quality and Implementing Change in Emergency Departments The Urgent Matters Learning Network (UMLN) II

  August 19, 2010 - Measuring Quality and Implementing Change in Emergency Departments The Urgent Matters Learning Network (UMLN) II