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.
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. gpink@email.unc.edu
George H
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Pink
Adalsteinn D
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Brown
Imtiaz
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Daniel
Martin L
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Hamlette
Frank
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Markel
Linda McGillis
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Hall
Ian
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McKillop
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