How can hospital performance be measured and monitored? August 2003 ABSTRACT Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report on hospital performance Measurement is central to the concept of hospital quality improvement; it provides a means to define what hospitals actually do‚ and to compare that with the original targets in order to identify opportunities for improvement. The principal methods of measuring hospital performance are regulatory inspection‚ public satisfaction surveys‚ third-party
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partial ones and impartial ones and explicitly identifies their behaviors. He states that a partial ruler is one who “[w]hen his subjects are hungry … does not feed them. [w]hen his subjects are cold … not clothe them. [w]hen his subjects are ill … does not nurture them. And when his subjects die … does not bury them.” Contrastingly‚ he states that an impartial ruler is one who “[w]hen [his] people are hungry … feeds them. When his people are cold … clothes them. When his people are ill … nurtures them
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of a “fountain in the center”. On the other hand‚ “where” she “comes from”‚ people are more free‚ and nature is authentic. The “acres of pine wood” paint a picture of an expansive forest‚ where one can freely roam‚ versus a dense city. Hens run in “circles”‚ like hens do‚ “clucking aimlessly”‚ because they are free. The “blueberry patches” and “violets” create imagery of authentic‚ beautiful nature - which they can still have without developed infrastructure or excessive money‚ ala “battered schoolhouses”
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Bell Guy de Maupassant I. Setting: The story happened some time in December at a rural community or village where most of the people are peasants. The villages are the Varville‚ Saint-Hilaire‚ and Billettes. II. Characters and Characterization: 1. Bell (Nicholas Toussaint) – a handicapped vagabond who suffered cruelness from the merciless people around him. 2. Baroness d’Avary – an old lady who helped Bell by giving him a place to sleep and food. 3. M. Chiquet – a ruthless‚ brutal
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No one likes to suffer. None of us like to feel pain‚ but factory farmed animals such as cows‚ pigs‚ and chickens experience great pain in their short-lived lives. The website factoryfarming.com‚ states‚ “a standard beef slaughter house kills 250 cattle every hour.” The method used is “stunning” this is done by using a catapult gun and giving the cows a mechanical blow to the head. It is to render them unconscious‚ but this procedure is terribly imprecise: “as a result‚ conscious animals are
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educated. Hannibal Lecter in the movie “Silence of the Lambs” is a psychologist. Who would think that a psychologist could be a serial killer? Certainly not me! Lecter further asserts his intelligence and education when he accepts an interview hosted by Clarice and offers his own perspective on who might be committing the recent murders. His intelligent insight eventually leads to the capture of Buffalo Bill. In the movie “Mr. Brooks‚” Earl Brooks is an intelligent‚ successful‚ and wealthy businessman. Although
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Comparison/Contrast Essay Although both Clarice Lispector’s "The Smallest Woman in the World" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" are magic realist stories showing the extreme sizes of two people‚ the stories depict differently how a society can react to a certain type of person. Through scenery and physical description‚ the authors show that different types of people can be loved or hated by a society. Marquez’s text starts off with children seeing a large
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Victorian Era Have you ever wondered how the Victorian Era was like? The Victorian Era started with the reign of queen Victoria which began in 1837-1901 and wasn’t a good period in history. The laws were very lenient‚ therefore causing the Victorian Era to have bad conditions like working struggles‚ making young children work‚ children not getting educated‚ rapid population growth‚ and dirty living conditions which brought lots of illnesses. To begin with‚ One of the reasons the Victorian Era was
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When Mrs. Record does not find Joey with Jamie or Emaline‚ Emaline says: “The alarm that rang in my head on seeing Angus riding in Harry’s truck rang even louder” (page 189). What might Emaline be feeling and why? I think Emaline felt doubtful and relieved. Once she saw Angus with Harry‚ she knew something bad was going to happen. Emaline knew that Harry Record was going to do an ignorant act because of his hate towards Angus. She kept the image of Angus in the
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following. In the first place‚ the mortality rate because of cannibalism drops from 9% to 4.5%‚ which means ODI lenses are able to help save $0.108 for each hen and save $0.00945 for replacing the dead hens. The additional potential considerable saving is from the feeding cost. It is mentioned that the farmer have to pay $7.04 annually for each hen‚ while this cost would go down to $6.837 every year resulting $0.204 savings for one inch feeding‚ thus the farmer can save 0.07655 for 3/8 inch feeding.
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