title: New study highlights ingredients for reengineering success.
abstract: Data benchmarks: A new study reveals specific elements to include in a reengineering program to boost its chances of success. The authors' review of the health care literature on reengineering reveals some startling discoveries, including the lack of consensus on defining reengineering and the fact that many hospitals are not finding the cost reductions they hoped for in the first years after completing their programs.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D002017:Budgets; D005246:Feedback; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000639:trends; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007857:Leadership; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D014481:United States