title: Don't forget to measure the results of your hospital reengineering effort.
abstract: Making sure re-engineering efforts can be quantified: Reorganizing a hospital into patient-focused care units must be a results-oriented, data-driven process. A New Jersey hospital developed baseline measures for a variety of outcomes for each new care center so improvement could be ensured and proven using hard and fast data.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States