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The spreadsheet and physician productivity.

E J Pike
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Friction between medical education faculty members and other physicians at St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, led to a program to assess both the costs and the contribution of the teaching faculty to the overall goals of the institution. Because the existing information system proved to be unequal to the task, a specially designed spreadsheet system was developed to be used for medical education physicians. The computer-based system that was developed permits a detailed analysis of the productivity of these physicians. More important, it allowed the medical education function to provide solid justification of its efforts on behalf of the medical center.

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Data CollectionDecision Support Systems, ManagementEfficiencyFaculty, MedicalHospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overHospitals, TeachingManagement Information SystemsMedical Staff, HospitalOhioJournal Article

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