title: The balanced scorecard: an incremental approach model to health care management.
abstract: The balanced scorecard represents a technique used in strategic management to translate an organization's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures that provide the framework for implementation of strategic management. This article develops an incremental approach for decision making by formulating a specific balanced scorecard model with an index of nonfinancial as well as financial measures. The incremental approach to costs, including profit contribution analysis and probabilities, allows decisionmakers to assess, for example, how their desire to meet different health care needs will cause changes in service design. This incremental approach to the balanced scorecard may prove to be useful in evaluating the existence of causality relationships between different objective and subjective measures to be included within the balanced scorecard.
authors.affiliation: Department of Accountancy, College of Business Administration, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, USA. cpineno@clarion.edu
authors.forename: Charles J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Pineno
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management; D006298:Health Services Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D007182:Income; D017059:Models, Econometric; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014600:Utilization Review