title: A framework for identifying and correcting structural inefficiencies.
abstract: An analysis of a psychiatric hospital's productivity-enhancement endeavor yielded a model, applicable to generic health care institutions, that identifies and classifies structural inefficiencies and suggests ways to correct them.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004526:Efficiency; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States