Can experience improve hospital management?

BACKGROUND: Experience curve effects were first observed in the industrial arena as demonstrations of the relationship between experience and efficiency. These relationships were largely determined by improvements in management efficiency and quality of care. In the health care industry, volume-outc...

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Main Authors: Haruhisa Fukuda, Kazuhide Okuma, Yuichi Imanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4175069?pdf=render