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Walters JK, Sharma A, Harrison R. Driving Efficiency Improvement (EI): Exploratory Analysis of a Centralised Model in New South Wales. Healthc Policy 2022; 15:1887-1894. [PMID: 36254223 PMCID: PMC9569157 DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s383107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Introduction Public healthcare systems face rising demand coupled with reducing funding growth rates, necessitating ongoing approaches to efficiency improvement (EI). Centrally coordinated EI approaches l may support EI leaders, yet few such approaches exist internationally. This study provides evidence to inform system-wide EI by harnessing understanding of the perceptions, role demands and support requirements of key EI stakeholders in the centralised EI model implemented in New South Wales. Methods A purposive sample of key informants within NSW Health with responsibility for EI in their organisation were invited to participate. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, recorded and transcribed. A thematic analysis was undertaken using a theoretical deductive approach. Results Seventeen respondents participated who occupied EI leadership roles in metro (8) and rural (6) health services as well as non-clinical support (3) services. Four primary themes emerged on the perceptions and experiences of participants in 1. holding a unique skillset which enables them to undertake EI; 2. inheriting EI accountabilities as additional duties rather than holding dedicated EI roles; 3. the importance of senior support for EI success; and 4. feelings of isolation in undertaking EI. An additional underpinning theme that EI is not well conceptualized in public health systems also emerged, whereby EI planners felt that frontline staff generally do not consider efficiency as a component of their duties. Conclusion EI leaders provide points of authority, experience and influence across organisations within public health systems. This study finds that EI planners possess a unique skillset, can feel isolated both within their health organisation and within the broader public health system and believe that EI is poorly conceptualized amongst health staff. Centralised support for EI stakeholders across a public health system can promote knowledge sharing and capability development. Addressing the role and support requirements of key EI stakeholders is essential.
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- James Kenneth Walters
- Patient Experience and System Performance Division, NSW Health, St Leonards, NSW, Australia,Correspondence: James Kenneth Walters, NSW Health, Level 9, 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, Email
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- School of Population Health, UNSW, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia
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LLMKA:基于Matlab的下肢骨肌运动分析工具箱. Zhongguo Xiu Fu Chong Jian Wai Ke Za Zhi 2022; 36. [PMID: 35570624 DOI: 10.7507/1002-1892.202202033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a Matlab toolbox to improve the efficiency of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis while ensuring the consistency of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis process and results. METHODS Adopted the design concept of "Batch processing tedious operation", based on the Matlab connection OpenSim interface function ensures the consistency of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis process and results, the functional programming was applied to package the five steps for scale, inverse kinematics analysis, residual reduction algorithm, static optimization analysis, and joint reaction analysis of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis as functional functions, and command programming was applied to analyze musculoskeletal movements in large numbers of patients. A toolbox called LLMKA (Lower Limbs Musculoskeletal Kinematics Analysis) was developed. Taking 120 patients with medial knee osteoarthritis as the research object, a clinical researcher was selected using the LLMKA toolbox and OpenSim to test whether the analysis process and results were consistent between the two methods. The researcher used the LLMKA toolbox again to conduct musculoskeletal kinematics analysis in 120 patients to verify whether the use of this toolbox could improve the efficiency of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis compared with using OpenSim. RESULTS Using the LLMKA toolbox could analyze musculoskeletal kinematics analysis in a large number of patients, and the analysis process and results were consistent with the use of OpenSim. Compared to using OpenSim, musculoskeletal kinematics analysis was completed in 120 patients using the LLMKA toolbox with only 2 operations were needed to enter the patient body mass data, operating steps decreased by 99.19%, total analysis time by 66.84%, and manual participation time by 99.72%, just need 0.079 1 hour (4 minutes and 45 seconds). CONCLUSION The LLMKA toolbox can complete a large number of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis in patients with one click in a way that is consistent in process and results with using OpenSim, reducing the total time of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis, and liberating clinical researchers from cumbersome steps, making more energy into the clinical significance of musculoskeletal kinematics analysis results.
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English EF, Holmstrom H, Kwan BW, Suresh K, Rotholz S, Lin CT, Sieja A. Virtual Sprint Outpatient Electronic Health Record Training and Optimization Effect on Provider Burnout. Appl Clin Inform 2022; 13:10-18. [PMID: 34986492 PMCID: PMC8731238 DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1740482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to develop a virtual electronic health record (EHR) training and optimization program and evaluate the impact of the virtual model on provider and staff burnout and electronic health record (EHR) experience. METHODS UCHealth created and supported a multidisciplinary EHR optimization and training program, known as the Epic Sprint Program. The Sprint Team conducted dozens of onsite Sprint events over the course of several years prior to the pandemic but transitioned to a fully virtual program and successfully "sprinted" 21 outpatient clinics from May to December 2020. Core program components of group and 1:1 training, workflow analysis, and new or adjusted EHR build were unchanged from the onsite model. Pre- and post-Sprint surveys provided detailed, objective data about EHR usability, EHR proficiency, job satisfaction, and burnout. RESULTS The EHR Net Promoter Score (NPS), a likelihood to recommend metric, increased by 39 points (-3 pre and 36 post; p < 0.001) for providers and 29 points (8 pre and 37 post; p = 0.001) for staff post-Sprint. Positive provider (NPS = +53) and staff (NPS = +47) NPS scores indicated a high likelihood to recommend the Sprint Program. Post-Sprint surveys also reflect an increase in providers (10%; p = 0.04) and staff (9%; 0.13) who indicated "no burnout" or "did not feel burned out." DISCUSSION The UCHealth Sprint Team transitioned this comprehensive, enterprise level initiative from an onsite model to a fully virtual EHR training and optimization program during the first few months of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite this change in program delivery, survey data clearly demonstrated improved EHR satisfaction, a high likelihood to recommend a sprint to a friend or colleague, and a trend toward burnout reduction in providers and staff. CONCLUSION Changing an existing on-site EHR optimization program to a purely virtual format can be successful, and this study showed improved provider and staff EHR satisfaction with reduced burnout.
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- Eden F. English
- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States,Address for correspondence Eden F. English, MD University of Colorado School of Medicine, General Internal MedicineCU Anschutz, Academic Office One, 12631 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Mahdiyan S, Dehghani A, Tafti AD, Pakdaman M, Askari R. Hospitals' efficiency in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Educ Health Promot 2019; 8:126. [PMID: 31334278 PMCID: PMC6615121 DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_393_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Given that the need to pay attention to measuring efficiency is considered as one of the main pillars of improving the level of efficiency in hospitals, so this study was carried out aimed to determine the mean technical efficiency (The technical efficiency is bound by zero and one and a score of less than one means that the theatre is inefficient as it could) score in terms of type and activity of the hospital, input-oriented and output-oriented attitude, returns to scale (In economics, returns to scale and economies of scale are related but different concepts that describe what happens as the scale of production increases in the long run, when all input levels including physical capital usage are variable (chosen by the firm). The concept of returns to scale arises in the context of a firm's production function. It explains the behavior of the rate of increase) in hospitals of Iran using data envelopment analysis (DEA) (DEA is a nonparametric method in operations' research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers. It is used to empirically measure productive efficiency of decision-making units) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) (SFA is a method of economic modeling. It has its starting point in the stochastic production frontier models simultaneously introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt[1977] and Meeusen and Van den Broeck[1977]. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was carried out with a systematic review of all studies conducted on measuring efficiency of hospitals in Iran from March 21, 2001 to December 21, 2017 using DEA and SFA. Eleven databases were searched using appropriate keywords and 470 articles were found and evaluated using a checklist, and finally, 24 articles were entered into the meta-analysis process. Meta-analysis was performed using random effect model and fixed-effect model, and study heterogeneity was investigated using Q-Cochran test and I 2 index. Furthermore, the main reasons of study heterogeneity were identified due to meta-regression. RESULTS The average technical efficiency score of hospitals using DEA and SFA method was obtained equal to 0.885 and 0.809, respectively. Furthermore, with regard to the DEA method, 0.885, 0.891.0.952 and 0.913 was obtained for input-oriented and output-oriented, general and specialized care hospitals and constant returns respectively. With regard to SFA method, 0.733, 0.664, 0.641, 0.802, was obtained, and the inputs and outputs affect measuring the efficiency. DISCUSSION In contrast, the DEA method can investigate several input and output simultaneously and is used as an effective and flexible tool in order to measure the efficiency of the hospital. DEA can be easily used for calculating efficiency scores based on the proper selection of input and output indicators. The data envelopment analysis method and different input and output variables have been used in most studies conducted in Iran, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis has been less considered. In the present study, the DEA method in governmental educational hospitals showed a higher efficiency than SFA method in the hospitals under study. But in general, due to lack of optimal efficiency level in the hospital, it is suggested that policymakers determine the hospital efficiency indices in order to evaluate their efficiency from different dimensions. CONCLUSION The average technical efficiency score of hospitals using DEA and SFA method was obtained equal to 0.885 and 0.809, respectively. Also, the mean technical efficiency score in terms of input-oriented and output-oriented, general and specialized care hospitals and constant returns to scale using the DEA method was obtained equal to 0.885, 0.891.0.952 and 0.913 and using the SFA method, respectively, it was equal to 0.733, 0.664, 0.641, 0.802, and the inputs and outputs affecting measuring the efficiency. There is no significant difference between the mean efficiency score between the two methods, but the data envelopment analysis method is used more. It is suggested that the hospitals efficiency indicators to be determined in order to more accurately evaluate the hospitals efficiency.
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- Somayeh Mahdiyan
- Management of Health Services, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- Department of Health Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- Management of Health Services, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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Westra BL, Johnson SG, Ali S, Bavuso KM, Cruz CA, Collins S, Furukawa M, Hook ML, LaFlamme A, Lytle K, Pruinelli L, Rajchel T, Settergren TT, Westman KF, Whittenburg L. Validation and Refinement of a Pain Information Model from EHR Flowsheet Data. Appl Clin Inform 2018; 9:185-198. [PMID: 29539649 PMCID: PMC5851787 DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Secondary use of electronic health record (EHR) data can reduce costs of research and quality reporting. However, EHR data must be consistent within and across organizations. Flowsheet data provide a rich source of interprofessional data and represents a high volume of documentation; however, content is not standardized. Health care organizations design and implement customized content for different care areas creating duplicative data that is noncomparable. In a prior study, 10 information models (IMs) were derived from an EHR that included 2.4 million patients. There was a need to evaluate the generalizability of the models across organizations. The pain IM was selected for evaluation and refinement because pain is a commonly occurring problem associated with high costs for pain management. OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to validate and further refine a pain IM from EHR flowsheet data that standardizes pain concepts, definitions, and associated value sets for assessments, goals, interventions, and outcomes. METHODS A retrospective observational study was conducted using an iterative consensus-based approach to map, analyze, and evaluate data from 10 organizations. RESULTS The aggregated metadata from the EHRs of 8 large health care organizations and the design build in 2 additional organizations represented flowsheet data from 6.6 million patients, 27 million encounters, and 683 million observations. The final pain IM has 30 concepts, 4 panels (classes), and 396 value set items. Results are built on Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) pain assessment terms and extend the need for additional terms to support interoperability. CONCLUSION The resulting pain IM is a consensus model based on actual EHR documentation in the participating health systems. The IM captures the most important concepts related to pain.
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- Bonnie L. Westra
- School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Adjunct Faculty, School of Nursing, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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- Department of Clinical Informatics, Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Care Delivery BioClinical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Information Services & Solutions, University of California Los Angeles Health, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Center for Nursing Practice and Research, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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- Department of Nursing, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Nursing & Duke Health Technology Solutions, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, United States
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- School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Information Technology, North Memorial Medical Center, Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Enterprise Information Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Department of Nursing, Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Informatics Consultant, Bumrungrad International, Health Informatics/Health System Architecture, Bangkok, Thailand
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Zimmermann E, Pfadler T, Kalb J, Dorman JA, Sommer D, Hahn G, Weickert J, Schmidt-Mende L. Toward High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Planar Heterojunction Sb 2S 3 Solar Cells. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2015; 2:1500059. [PMID: 27980942 PMCID: PMC5115364 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2015] [Revised: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Low-cost hybrid solar cells have made tremendous steps forward during the past decade owing to the implementation of extremely thin inorganic coatings as absorber layers, typically in combination with organic hole transporters. Using only extremely thin films of these absorbers reduces the requirement of single crystalline high-quality materials and paves the way for low-cost solution processing compatible with roll-to-roll fabrication processes. To date, the most efficient absorber material, except for the recently introduced organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites, has been Sb2S3, which can be implemented in hybrid photovoltaics using a simple chemical bath deposition. Current high-efficiency Sb2S3 devices utilize absorber coatings on nanostructured TiO2 electrodes in combination with polymeric hole transporters. This geometry has so far been the state of the art, even though flat junction devices would be conceptually simpler with the additional potential of higher open circuit voltages due to reduced charge carrier recombination. Besides, the role of the hole transporter is not completely clarified yet. In particular, additional photocurrent contribution from the polymers has not been directly shown, which points toward detrimental parasitic light absorption in the polymers. This study presents a fine-tuned chemical bath deposition method that allows fabricating solution-processed low-cost flat junction Sb2S3 solar cells with the highest open circuit voltage reported so far for chemical bath devices and efficiencies exceeding 4%. Characterization of back-illuminated solar cells in combination with transfer matrix-based simulations further allows to address the issue of absorption losses in the hole transport material and outline a pathway toward more efficient future devices.
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- Eugen Zimmermann
- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Physics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany
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