The health care industry faces new challenges every day, and comprises one-seventh of the GNP in the United States. There are new regulations, new technologies, and new organizations being created continuously as a result of public policy. Managers of health care need to respond to these challenges with sound performance evaluation and decision making. This book will offer state of the art performance evaluation methods as well as relevant and current examples to aid practicing managers and graduate students studying in this field.
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(2008). Evaluation of Performance in Health Care. In: Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 120. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75448-2_1
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