title: Achieving superior productivity.
abstract: Hospitals need to analyze, develop, and implement realistic, effective productivity standards. The first step in a productivity analysis is to collect performance data for each hospital department. A workload measure should be assigned to every department. Comparing historical performance data for each department highlights problem areas. Gaining executive commitment and department manager acceptance is essential to productivity-improvement initiatives. Even in departments that experience a change in function, historical data can be used to monitor performance and determine where improvement is needed. A weighting system can be employed to capture historical data and establish a standard against which to measure future performance.
authors.affiliation: fogel@easystreet.com
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Fogel
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019985:Benchmarking; D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload