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Measuring performance in hospitals: the development of an operational dashboard to coordinate and optimize patient, material and information flows

Kaat De Pourcq (UGent) , Paul Gemmel (UGent) and Jeroen Trybou (UGent)
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Currently, many Western countries are seeking ways to increase the efficiency and quality of health care. These efforts reflect stakeholders’ expectations of improving performance in response to two important challenges. First, health care expenditures rise continuously and question the financial sustainability of current delivery systems. Secondly, health care systems suffer from unexplained variability and gaps in the quality of the patient-centered care. To make hospitals more patient-centered it is necessary to intervene on patient flow logistics. This assumes an integrated view on patient, material and information flows to align the different steps in the care process with the supporting processes and the required resources. Consequently, the development of process-oriented performance measurement systems is crucial. Most performance measures in hospitals are not process-oriented at the moment and cannot help a health care system to better synchronize the patient, material and information flows. This research describes a method to develop a reliable and valid set of both quality-focused and process-oriented key performance indicators and applies the findings to a case study on the process of hip replacement patients taking the opinion of internal stakeholders into account.
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Performance measurement, Healthcare, Process management

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De Pourcq, Kaat, et al. “Measuring Performance in Hospitals: The Development of an Operational Dashboard to Coordinate and Optimize Patient, Material and Information Flows.” Boundaryless Hospital : Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management, edited by Horst Albach et al., Springer, 2016, pp. 159–81, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9_9.
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De Pourcq, K., Gemmel, P., & Trybou, J. (2016). Measuring performance in hospitals: the development of an operational dashboard to coordinate and optimize patient, material and information flows. In H. Albach, H. Meffert, A. Pinkwart, R. Reichwald, & W. von Eiff (Eds.), Boundaryless hospital : rethink and redefine health care management (pp. 159–181). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9_9
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De Pourcq, Kaat, Paul Gemmel, and Jeroen Trybou. 2016. “Measuring Performance in Hospitals: The Development of an Operational Dashboard to Coordinate and Optimize Patient, Material and Information Flows.” In Boundaryless Hospital : Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management, edited by Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Andreas Pinkwart, Ralf Reichwald, and Wilfried von Eiff, 159–81. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9_9.
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De Pourcq, Kaat, Paul Gemmel, and Jeroen Trybou. 2016. “Measuring Performance in Hospitals: The Development of an Operational Dashboard to Coordinate and Optimize Patient, Material and Information Flows.” In Boundaryless Hospital : Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management, ed by. Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Andreas Pinkwart, Ralf Reichwald, and Wilfried von Eiff, 159–181. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9_9.
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De Pourcq K, Gemmel P, Trybou J. Measuring performance in hospitals: the development of an operational dashboard to coordinate and optimize patient, material and information flows. In: Albach H, Meffert H, Pinkwart A, Reichwald R, von Eiff W, editors. Boundaryless hospital : rethink and redefine health care management. Berlin, Germany: Springer; 2016. p. 159–81.
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K. De Pourcq, P. Gemmel, and J. Trybou, “Measuring performance in hospitals: the development of an operational dashboard to coordinate and optimize patient, material and information flows,” in Boundaryless hospital : rethink and redefine health care management, H. Albach, H. Meffert, A. Pinkwart, R. Reichwald, and W. von Eiff, Eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2016, pp. 159–181.
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  booktitle    = {{Boundaryless hospital : rethink and redefine health care management}},
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