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Assessing organizational performance

Quality Management in Health Care, 1994
To achieve unprecedented levels of performance, health care organizations may have to redesign the process by which they generate performance-related information and redefine the content of the information itself. In this article, we suggest several principles for accomplishing these objectives.
R J, Luttman, P B, Siren, G L, Laffel
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Assessing System Performance

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2008
Measuring system performance during image-guided procedures is difficult but necessary if the safety, quality, and efficiency of interventional radiology are to be improved. Because overall performance during these procedures is directly related to the operator's skill, this article will focus on how observable manifestations of skill can be elicited ...
Eleanor I, Bucholz, James R, Duncan
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Assessing scientific performance

Information Processing & Management, 1984
Abstract A method for assessing scientific performance is proposed and illustrated. Advantages over existing methods are: (1) increased objectivity; (2) increased emphasis on what was rather than who contributed; and (3) increased accuracy in theme identification.
John M. Weiner, Stephen M. Stowe, Richard C. Honour, George Denman Hammond   +3 more
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Assessing Performance in Libraries

Public Library Quarterly, 1978
This article examines the potential of the use of cost benefit analysis in evaluating the performance of public libraries. The author describes an application in an Australian setting.
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Performing the performance assessment

English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 2019
PurposeIn this paper, the author extends the current research on standardized performance assessments in preservice education by moving with novice teachers from their student teaching experiences into their first years as fully certified classroom teachers. Here, the author draws on scholarship that conceptualizes literacies as performative (Alexander,
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Assessing Diagnostic Performance

NEJM Evidence
Assessing Diagnostic PerformanceDiagnosis is an action and a goal in medicine. This article is the introduction to a series of review articles on varying facets of diagnosis. Clinical diagnosis is an exercise in classification; that is, placing the patient's condition in the correct diagnostic category.
Karen, Cosby, Daniel, Yang, Harvey V, Fineberg   +2 more
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Assessing Nebulizer Performance

Respiratory Care, 2002
The quality of the aerosol generated by a nebulizer system is a function of its design, operating parameters, and the drug formulation to be aerosolized. The aerosolized drug dose inhaled from a nebulizer is determined by the patient's breathing pattern.
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Assessment of Cardiac Performance

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
To the Editor.— The indirect measurement of left ventricular ejection time intervals for assessment of myocardial function was recently reviewed in an editorial ( 216 :2007, 1971). Many reports have verified the sensitivity of this technique and its good correlation with more elaborate cardiac function tests.
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ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR [PDF]

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2009
ABSTRACT**:  One is used to hearing harsh statements about inefficient public services. It is not surprising to see public sector performance questioned. What is surprising is that what is meant by performance, and how it is measured, does not seem to matter much to either the critics or the advocates of the public sector.
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Assessing radiologist performance

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
Unless radiologist performance assessment is sufficiently deep, comprehensive, and balanced, it may tend to omit, obscure, or distort key aspects of the important contributions that radiologists make, with adverse consequences for employers, radiologists themselves, and above all, the patients they serve.
Heidi N, Keiser, Richard B, Gunderman
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