Financial benchmarks for Ontario hospitals.
Since the inception of the Hospital Reports in 1998, researchers have focused on three separate but related problems--how to measure performance; how to evaluate performance; and how to transfer knowledge about excellent performance to the field. This article describes a method to address the second problem--how to evaluate performance by benchmarking two indicators of financial performance and condition through three years of recent data for Ontario hospitals.
Pink
George H
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Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. gpink@email.unc.edu
Brown
Adalsteinn D
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Daniel
Imtiaz
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Hamlette
Martin L
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Markel
Frank
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Hall
Linda McGillis
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McKillop
Ian
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D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D005375:Financial Audit / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006302:Health Services Research; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods*; D009864:Ontario; D012941:Social Responsibility; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017749:Total Quality Management