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Benchmarking Hospital Performance Using Health Analytics, Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi
Benchmarking Hospital Performance Using Health Analytics, Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi
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Background: The objective of this study is to investigate hospital performance using an emerging analytics approach. Given that hospital care accounts for a large segment of healthcare spending, it is essential that hospital performance be measured over time to determine whether and where there is room for improvement in some of its critical success factors, and if there are savings to be found.
Methods: Employing indicators such as hospital cost, in-hospital death rate, length of hospital stay, and the number of discharges from the hospital, we look at the trends for these indicators over a 10-year period. Data was extracted …