Management Decision: Volume 56 Issue 10

Evidence-Based Management for Performance Improvement in HealthCare

Davide Aloini, Lorella Cannavacciuolo, Simone Gitto, Emanuele Lettieri, Paolo Malighetti, Filippo Visintin

What evidence on evidence-based management in healthcare?

Afsaneh Roshanghalb, Emanuele Lettieri, Davide Aloini, Lorella Cannavacciuolo, Simone Gitto, Filippo Visintin

This manuscript discusses the main findings gathered through a systematic literature review aimed at crystallizing the state of art about evidence-based management (EBMgt) in…

Three perspectives on evidence-based management: rank, fit, variety

Peter F. Martelli, Tuna Cem Hayirli

The debate on evidence-based management (EBMgt) has reached an impasse. The persistence of meaningful critiques highlights challenges embedded in the current frameworks. The field…

Conceptual modelling of the flow of frail elderly through acute-care hospitals: An evidence-based management approach

Silvia Bruzzi, Paolo Landa, Elena Tànfani, Angela Testi

The ageing of the world’s population is causing an increase in the number of frail patients admitted to hospitals. In the absence of appropriate management and organisation, these…

Application of evidence-based management to chronic disease healthcare: a framework

Saligrama Agnihothri, Raghav Agnihothri

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for the application of evidence-based management to chronic disease healthcare.

Configurations of factors affecting triage decision-making: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Cristina Ponsiglione, Adelaide Ippolito, Simonetta Primario, Giuseppe Zollo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the configuration of factors affecting the accuracy of triage decision-making. The contribution of the work is twofold: first, it develops…

Assessing the conformity to clinical guidelines in oncology: An example for the multidisciplinary management of locally advanced colorectal cancer treatment

Jacopo Lenkowicz, Roberto Gatta, Carlotta Masciocchi, Calogero Casà, Francesco Cellini, Andrea Damiani, Nicola Dinapoli, Vincenzo Valentini

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology to deal with conformance checking through the implementation of computer-interpretable-clinical guidelines (CIGs), and…

An integrated approach to evaluate the risk of adverse events in hospital sector: From theory to practice

Miguel Angel Ortiz-Barrios, Zulmeira Herrera-Fontalvo, Javier Rúa-Muñoz, Saimon Ojeda-Gutiérrez, Fabio De Felice, Antonella Petrillo

The risk of adverse events in a hospital evaluation is an important process in healthcare management. It involves several technical, social, and economical aspects. The purpose of…

Cost drivers for managing dialysis facilities in a large chain in Taiwan

Chia-Ching Cho, AnAn Chiu, Shaio Yan Huang, Shuen-Zen Liu

As the rise in expenditures will be even faster when the baby-boom generation soon reaches healthcare-dependent ages, healthcare providers are facing cost management decision of…

Measuring information exchange and brokerage capacity of healthcare teams

Francesca Grippa, John Bucuvalas, Andrea Booth, Evaline Alessandrini, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Lisa M. Wade

The purpose of this paper is to explore possible factors impacting team performance in healthcare, by focusing on information exchange within and across hospital’s boundaries.

Let’s play the patients music: A new generation of performance measurement systems in healthcare

Sabina Nuti, Guido Noto, Federico Vola, Milena Vainieri

Current performance measurement systems (PMSs) are mainly designed to measure performance at the organizational level. They tend not to assess the value created by the…

Hospital unit understaffing and missed treatments: primary evidence

Ashley Y. Metcalf, Yong Wang, Marco Habermann

Hospitals throughout the USA are facing increasing patient demand and employee shortages. This capacity issue has led to understaffing in some hospital areas. The purpose of this…