Quality measurement and benchmarking of HPV vaccination services

Maurici, Massimo; Paulon, Luca; Campolongo, Alessandra; Meleleo, C; Carlino, Cristiana; Giordani, Alessandro; Perrelli, Fabrizio; Sgricia, S; Ferrante, M.; Franco, Elisabetta

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“…that will help the organization identify and implement improvements" (Bhutta and Huq, 1999: 255-256). For a more comprehensive review of the topic and its potential applications, please see Bhutta and Huq, 1999;Elmuti and Kathawala, 1997;Feigenbaum, 1951;Grabs, 2015;Maurici et al, 2013;or Smithson, Birks, Harrison, Nair, and Hitchins, 2015).…”

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“…Although benchmarking may take many forms, at its core, it entails a “process of identifying, capturing, and leveraging knowledge” and “continuously measuring and comparing one's business processes against comparable processes…that will help the organization identify and implement improvements” (Bhutta and Huq, : 255‐256). For a more comprehensive review of the topic and its potential applications, please see Bhutta and Huq, ; Elmuti and Kathawala, ; Feigenbaum, ; Grabs, ; Maurici et al., ; or Smithson, Birks, Harrison, Nair, and Hitchins, ).…”

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Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary By using data on provisional employees with and without criminal records, we find that existing standards of a “reasonable amount of [arrest] risk” (derived from “time to redemption” research) for an employer to incur in hiring individuals with criminal histories prove too onerous for many employees without records to meet, let alone those with records. We then propose an alternative method of assessing arrest risk across these populations—benchmarking—and provide several alternative standards, illustrating that they (a) clear a demonstrable majority of employees without records and a sizable minority of those with a criminal history and (b) do not increase the risk incurred by employers over and above the level they already accept among employees without records. Policy Implications Our findings suggest that the almost singular importance placed on “time since last” policies when conducting criminal background checks is ill‐placed as the risk of arrest across populations of employees with and without criminal histories overlaps more than the results of extant research would imply. Although future research needs to be conducted to ascertain whether our findings generalize to other employment contexts, current background check practices would be better served if they were to adopt an approach that chooses a specific threshold for comparison, which should align with an easily communicated and face‐valid cost function. Furthermore, the selected standard should (a) hold all individuals to the same standard and (b) be one that a demonstrable majority of individuals without criminal records can meet.

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“…The ageing of population, combined with higher expectations on specialistic care, forces the healthcare providers to improve the quality of service delivery and resource management by means of advanced tools [5][6][7][8] that prevent costs from rising uncontrollably.…”

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A derivative-free approach for a simulation-based optimization problem in healthcare

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Hospitals have been challenged in recent years to deliver high quality care with limited resources. Given the pressure to contain costs,developing procedures for optimal resource allocation becomes more and more critical in this context. Indeed, under/overutilization of emergency room and ward resources can either compromise a hospital's ability to provide the best possible care, or result in precious funding going toward underutilized resources. Simulation--based optimization tools then help facilitating the planning and management of hospital services, by maximizing/minimizing some specific indices (e.g. net profit) subject to given clinical and economical constraints.\ud In this work, we develop a simulation--based optimization approach for the resource planning of a specific hospital ward. At each step, we first consider a suitably chosen resource setting and evaluate both efficiency and satisfaction of the restrictions by means of a discrete--event simulation model. Then, taking into account the information obtained by the simulation process, we use a derivative--free optimization algorithm to modify the given setting. We report results for a real--world problem coming from the obstetrics ward of an Italian hospital showing both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed approach

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Quality measurement and benchmarking of HPV vaccination services

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A derivative-free approach for a simulation-based optimization problem in healthcare

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