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Performance Measures and Pay for Performance
Chest, 2006Performance measures and pay for performance are terms creating considerable angst among physicians today. Understanding the driving forces behind these concepts will help practitioners to strategically plan for their impact on individual physician practices and on health care in general.
Michael H, Baumann, Ed, Dellert
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From PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT to PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
Measuring Business Excellence, 1997Corporate interest in non‐financial performance measures may be a phenomenon of the nineties but it is nothing new. But the extent to which it brings about a change in company behaviour and business results hinges on the recognition that it is not an end in itself but a crucial component in the performance management cycle.
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Measures of Rowing Performance
Sports Medicine, 2012Accurate measures of performance are important for assessing competitive athletes in practi~al and research settings. We present here a review of rowing performance measures, focusing on the errors in these measures and the implications for testing rowers.
Smith, TB, Hopkins, William
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Performance Specification and Measurement
1993There are currently quite a few hardware description languages that support functional and structural description. However very few of them have features for rigorously describing the nonfunctional aspects of a system. Among such data are the performance attributes.
Ram Mandayam, Ranga Vemuri
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Machines that perform measurements
Theoretical Computer Science, 2022zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Eduardo Skapinakis, José Félix Costa
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How Do Performance Measures Perform?
The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2007The relevance of the information ratio and the alpha, two leading performance measures for multi-index models, depends on the type of portfolio that investors hold. Comparison of these measures and the generalized Treynor ratio on the quality of the rankings they produce reveals that a precise measure yields similar rankings using alternative ...
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Performance Measurement and Capitals
2013This chapter focuses on the most important characteristics that Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should have in order to reinforce their informative effectiveness in stakeholders’ decision processes. To this aim, we discuss the role that KPIs can potentially play within Integrated Reporting (IR)—i.e.
BARTOLINI, MONICA +2 more
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Bibliometric performance measures
Scientometrics, 1996Three different types of bibliometrics — literature bibliometrics, patent bibliometrics, and linkage bibliometric can all be used to address various government performance and results questions. Applications of these three bibliometric types will be described within the framework of Weinberg's internal and external criteria, whether the work being done
Francis Narin, Kimberly S. Hamilton
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Surgical Performance Measurement
Health Care Management Science, 2002The need for effective surgical performance measurement has gained an increasingly high profile in recent years, particularly since events at Bristol Royal Infirmary, where apparent poor performance has prompted the UK Department of Health to instigate a major Public Inquiry.
Tom, Treasure +3 more
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The Measurement of Physician Performance
Quality Management in Health Care, 1995There is growing interest in measuring the performance of physicians. At U.S. Healthcare (USHC), performance assessment is the responsibility of U.S. Quality Algorithms, one of its subsidiaries. This article discusses the development and application of certain measures employed to assess the performance of physicians and how compensation is linked to ...
N A, Hanchak, N, Schlackman
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