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Does Capitation Matter? Impacts on Access, Use, and Quality
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004 Provider capitation may constrain costs, but it also may reduce access and quality of care. We examine the impacts of capitating the usual source of care of enrollees in health maintenance organizations (HMOs).
Samuel H. Zuvekas, Steven C. Hill
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INTEGRATED COST MODEL FOR IMPROVING THE PRODUCTION IN COMPANIES
Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita, 2014 Purpose: All processes in the company play important role in ensuring functional integrated management system. We point out the importance of need for a systematic approach to the use of quantitative, but especially statistical methods for modelling the ...
Zuzana Hajduova
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Analytical Quality, Test Quality and Quality Costs [PDF]
Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 1986 This paper discusses briefly: analytical quality and its determinants; design of quality assurance procedures on the basis of quality; specifications and quality-cost models; test quality and medical costs; external quality assessment and harmonization of clinical chemical test results; the potential role of computers, database and knowledge-based ...
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Modelling Cost of Quality for Defect Reduction
Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2022 Purpose: This paper aims to develop the system dynamics model of managing quality costs using the perception maps prepared on the basis of the actual data of the organization. The model depicts the cost of quality and the associated defect percentage to
Ijaz Yusuf, Tashfeen M Azhar
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Model of quality costs and economic benefits of a business process of manufacturing companies
Cogent Engineering, 2019 The objective of the study is to develop a mathematical model to measure the quality cost and economic benefits of the implementation of the quality improvement program within a business process of manufacturing companies.
Muhammad Rosiawan +2 more
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Cost–Benefit Analysis of Scan-vs-BIM-Based Quality Management
Buildings, 2022 Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and building information modeling (BIM) play an important role as smart construction technologies introduced to increase productivity in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. However, these smart
Taewan Kim +4 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2017 Healthcare.gov was created to facilitate the market for non-group insurance in states that did not establish their own marketplaces. In Healthcare.gov, families are asked to report their tobacco use status, and tobacco use surcharges of up to 50% may ...
Michael F. Pesko +3 more
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THE EFFECT OF MANAGEMENT (STYLE) ON COST OF QUALITY IN ENGINEERING PROJECTS [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2020 Management styles affect quality cost in the construction industry. Despite this, little has been done to counter the negative effects. This study investigated the relationship between management styles and the cost of quality in the construction ...
Hamza Ali. K. Krebish , Aysen Berberoglu
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Self-Rated Health Trajectories among Married Americans: Do Disparities Persist over 20 Years?
Journal of Aging Research, 2018 The purpose of this study is to understand self-rated health (SRH) trajectories by social location (race/ethnicity by gender by social class) among married individuals in the United States. We estimate multilevel models of SRH using six observations from
Terceira A. Berdahl, Julia McQuillan
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Conceptual Development Informing the Kidney Failure Patient Life Goals Survey
Kidney MedicineRationale & Objectives: To report on the qualitative study supporting concept elicitation and item development for a new survey assessing discussion of patient life goals (D-PaLS) for people with kidney failure (KF) on maintenance dialysis.
Claudia Dahlerus +11 more
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