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Benchmarking Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the delivery of preventive health services: comparison of methods

Doebbeling, B. N.; Vaughn, T. E.; Woolson, R. F.; … - 2002

were calculated for 138 VAMCs. Percentile ranks for each outcome were assigned. Two approaches were used for benchmarking … facilities (n = 16) was 3 or less. EPRP and 1998 VHS data demonstrated that the survey measures and benchmarking approaches were …

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Benchmarking Excellence Among Accredited Economic Development Organizations

Wilkins, Joy; King, Dana; Garvey, Blair; Lytle, Andrea - 2009

In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They are interested in operating as effectively as possible, in making the highest...

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Benchmarking Quality Management Among Accredited Economic Development Organizations

Wilkins, Joy; Aton, Carol - 2006

In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They re interested in operating as effectively as possible, in yielding the highest...

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Creating a sense of 'closure': Providing confidence intervals on some recent estimates of Indigenous populations

Hunter, Boyd; Dungey, Mardi - 2003

alternative method of benchmarking the Indigenous population, and hence provide an appreciation of the reliability and bias of …

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Articulating and comparing standards through benchmarking of assessment

Booth, Sara; Melano, Anne; Sainsbury, Heather; Woodley, Lynn - 2011

. This paper presents their cross-institutional benchmarking relationship as a case study in building the necessary trust … developed by an ALTC Teaching Quality Indicators Project team. UTAS and UOW had formerly been involved in a trial benchmarking … to the development of their benchmarking policy and processes. The focus on assessment ensured the project would explore …

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From Focus on Price to the Pyramid of Innovation, Information, Cooperation, Value and Trust: A Success Story of Five Swedish Building Material Manufacturers

Jan Sundquist - Halmstad Universitet - 2010

This is a reprint from vol 8 no 2 which has not previously beeen available electronically.In the building sector, value for the customer, is often regarded as being value for money and this, in turn, is achieved by means of competitive tendering. However, there are companies that also focus on...

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11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003

Geltner, David; Mcgrath, William Tod - 2003

structure, portfolio strategy, equilibrium pricing of asset classes, investment performance measurement and benchmarking …

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Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Indonesian Firm Efficiency: A Note

Prabowo, Handono E. T.; Cabanda, Emilyn - 2011

This research attempts to model performance measurement for the firms listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) using the stochastic frontier approach. There are 121 firms analyzed over the period of 2000-05 with 726 pooled observations. We also test whether firm’s age, size, market share,...

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Early Versus Late Effort in Dynamic Agencies with Unverifiable Information

Schöndube, Jens Robert - 2008

In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...

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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2009

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...

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