Multi-Institutional Systems
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A framework for managing core facilities within the research enterprise.

30 Aug 2009 Core facilities represent increasingly important operational and strategic components of institutions' research enterprises, especially in biomolecular science and engineering disciplines. With this realization, many research institutions are ... Read more...

Implementing interdisciplinary practice change in an international health-care organization.

30 Jul 2009 The current emphasis on adopting evidence-based practice often results in the need to change interdisciplinary practice. This article describes the successful system-wide change to evidence-based wound care practices in a large, Middle-Eastern ... Read more...

Implementing a standardized order set for community-acquired pneumonia: impact on mortality and cost.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Order sets have shown some success in improving compliance with clinical guidelines, as well as patient and financial outcomes. Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) deployed a standardized adult pneumonia order set throughout its eight acute ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Multi-Institutional Systems'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Spreading TCAB across network hospitals. 30 Oct 2009
• Hospital looks at itself, culture to fight MDROs. 29 Sep 2009
• Forging a new system. CHI, Trinity agree to merge hospitals in Idaho, Ore. 5 Sep 2009
• A framework for managing core facilities within the research enterprise. 30 Aug 2009
• Exempla finds faith. Proposed agreement would transfer sponsorship to Sisters of Charity for free. 22 Aug 2009
• Implementing interdisciplinary practice change in an international health-care organization. 30 Jul 2009
• Implementing a standardized order set for community-acquired pneumonia: impact on mortality and cost. 30 Jul 2009
• What would you do? Should University Health and Community Health join forces? 30 Jul 2009
• The efficiency of hospital-based clusters: evaluating system performance using data envelopment analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Streamlining the OR. 29 Jun 2009
• Growing clinical informatics in a multifacility environment. 29 Jun 2009
• Consolidated, without waste. Pilot project gives Montana HIO a single-source solution to patient data. 27 Jun 2009
• It takes an EHR to create a village. Large Ariz. system creates a standardized EHR to use at its 20 hospitals. 27 Jun 2009
• Making a break. More hospitals attempt to leave Health Alliance. 27 Jun 2009
• Walking on golden eggshells. Some Calif. hospitals sweating seismic mandates. 20 Jun 2009
• The role of the hospital registry in achieving outcome benchmarks in cancer care. 13 Jun 2009
• How one IDN gave cold shoulder to high energy costs. Hospital invests and warms to far-reaching power savings. 30 May 2009
• AORN interviews...William H Wilcox. Interview by Patricia C Seifert. 30 May 2009
• Creation of surge capacity by early discharge of hospitalized patients at low risk for untoward events. 30 May 2009
• Taking on the big boys. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Multi-Institutional Systems'

Definition: Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.

Descriptor UI: D009096

Alternative terms: Multi-Institutional Systems; Multi Institutional Systems; System, Multi-Institutional; System, Multi Institutional; Systems, Multi-Institutional; Systems, Multi Institutional; Multi-Institutional System; Multi Institutional System; System, Multi-Hospital; Multi-Hospital System; System, Multi Hospital; Systems, Multi-Hospital; Multihospital Systems; Multihospital System; System, Multihospital; Systems, Multihospital; Multi-Hospital Systems; Multi Hospital Systems;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.452.540;

History Note: 80

Technical Notes: IM; coord with institutions or specialty (IM); specify geog