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Benchmarking urban acute care hospitals

Health Care Management Review, 2013
Over the last couple of decades, hospitals in the United States are facing pressures to maximize performance in terms of production efficiency and quality. An increasing emphasis on value-based purchasing on the part of third-party payers as well as the prevalence of pay for performance initiatives create an imperative for more accurate assessments of ...
Preethy, Nayar, Yasar A, Ozcan, Fang, Yu, Anh T, Nguyen   +3 more
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City Hospitals and Urban Hospital Systems

Urban hospitals represent a critical facet of the medical system in the United States, yet they have only recently emerged as a central, organizing focus of scholarly research. While work in the fields of history of medicine, health-care policy, sociology, public health, and urban history have frequently touched on the role of hospitals located in ...
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Supervisory Communication and Performance in Urban Hospitals

Journal of Communication, 1973
The relationship between the communicative effectiveness of hospital supervisory personnel and their performance as perceived by subordinate workers was examined through use of questionnaire interview. Communicative effectiveness measures included (1) perceived communication behavior, (2) frequency and amount of communication between supervisors and ...
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The Plight of the Urban Public Hospital

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1980
This paper reviews identifying characteristics of the urban public hospital and discusses some of the chronic problems, such as funding, image, constituency and acceptance, that this institution has faced. Alternative courses of action for dealing with these problems are considered. No single solution is recommended for every community, but suggestions
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Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021
Nyuk Hien Wong, Chun Liang Tan, Dionysia Kolokotsa   +2 more
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Why urban voluntary hospitals close.

Health services research, 1984
In this paper, we argue for the importance of understanding hospital closings and relocations. Broad descriptive data on closings, relocations, and other reconfigurations of beds in 52 large and mid-size U.S. cities are presented. The period covered is 1937 to 1980. Two contrasting outlooks on hospital closings and relocations are offered.
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Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat

Nature, 2023
Keer Zhang, Lei Zhao, Xuhui Lee
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Challenges resulting from urban density and climate change for the EU energy transition

Nature Energy, 2023
A T D Perera, Kavan Javanroodi, Dasaraden Mauree   +2 more
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Urban community hospitals.

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1995
W, Hamilton, A, Round
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Spatial information and the legibility of urban form: Big data in urban morphology

International Journal of Information Management, 2021
Geoff Boeing
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