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D S Jackovitz

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PubMed1987

Enhancing competitive position through an emergency room patient classification system.

The health care environment of the 1980's is vastly different than that of the previous two decades. Today, it is characterized by service competition and cost consciousness. As competition for emergency room services increases, hospitals need to reassess their business philosophies. A step in this direction is the establishment of a patient acuity system that will determine appropriate nurse staffing requirements and thus cost. By developing operational strategies of this type, it is perceived that hospital management will increase the emergency room's ability to compete in the volatile ambulatory care market. This article addresses the need for competitive strategies by describing development of an emergency room patient acuity system.

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PubMed1984

The preferred provider organization development process: models for applying a systematic approach.

To date, the preferred provider organization (PPO) concept has received considerable attention. Current literature, however, has focused on conceptual explanations and case studies of this new alternative delivery system as opposed to the process involved in developing operational PPOs. This paper focuses on the application of analytical techniques to strengthen PPO development activities. These techniques range from network analysis for planning PPO development to system flowcharts that depict new PPO operations. Since PPOs are used as the application base for the above tools, a brief description of PPOs will be addressed prior to explaining the techniques.

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Ambulatory patient satisfaction: a systematic approach to collecting and reporting information.

The importance of outpatient services to most hospitals continues to escalate. The number of ambulatory outpatients is much larger than the number of inpatients, and revenues from outpatient services are predicted to equal or exceed inpatient revenues in the near future. The ability to provide outpatient services with exceptional quality is paramount to long-term survival of hospitals. This article describes a methodology for systematically collecting and reporting patient satisfaction information from a wide array of hospital ambulatory care services. By systematically measuring satisfaction, hospitals can determine the outpatient areas and service dimensions in need of performance improvement.

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