Benchmarking
Productivity
Cost Benefit
Cost Effectiveness
Hodgepodge
100
The examination of what others are doing.
What is the essense of benchmarking
100
Can be obtained by articles, research and talking with peers.
What is Productivity Standards.
100
Project goals, project benefits and project costs are just of few of these.
What is the Key elements in performing a cost-benefit analysis.
100
Technique that measures the cost of alternatives that generate the same outcome.
What is a Cost-Effective Analysis.
100
A patient day, a nursing visit, etc.
What is A Unit of Service.
200
Assesses what the competition is doing or using.
What is Competetive Benchmarking
200
The key to this is working smarter not harder.
What is Productivity Improvement
200
What the organization hopes the project will accomplish.
What is Determining Project Goals
200
Something is cost-effective if the care provided is this.
What is as good as any other approach but at lower cost.
200
Where is it performed? Whos is performing it? Is it necessary to perform fall under what?
What is Productivity Improvement.
300
Adapting other industry practices into a healthcare setting.
What is Cooperative Benchmarking
300
Productivity Standards are calculated in this.
What is a percentage.
300
Should include only incremental figures that result from the project.
What is Estimating Project Benefits.
300
The comparison of alternatives that generate similar outcomes.
What is Operationalizing.
300
The strange man with big glasses on your powerpoint slide is holding what?
What is A Calculator.
400
Organizations in the same industry pool data anonymously so that all members can see where they stand.
What is Collaborative Benchmarking
400
The formula for productivity standards.
What is Actual Productivity/Standard Productivity x 100.
400
Determining all monies surrounding this project.
What is Estimating Project Costs.
400
The costs are measured while the benefits are held as this.
What is Constant.
400
Selecting an area where change might result in a meaningful impact.
What is Deciding what to Benchmark.
500
The number of steps in the benchmarking process.
What is 10.
500
The formula for productivity.
What is Total Outputs/Total Inputs
500
The formula for a cost benefit analysis.
What is Benefits/Costs > 1
500
If we get at least as good a result for a lower cost then our alternative is what.
What is Superior.
500
Process of estimating costs based on the amount of effort, such as labor, supplies, etc. involved in producing one unit of service.
What is Unit Costing.
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