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Clinical Benchmarking

For further information contact: Daniel.Louis@jefferson.edu 

Center staff are collaborating with physicians and management of “A. Gemelli” Hospital, the teaching hospital of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy in the design, analysis and presentation of clinically relevant hospital benchmarking reports. Disease Staging is used in reports that take into account severity of illness while measuring quality and resource use outcomes. Additional analyses explore how internal organizational features affect departmental performance and patient outcomes and how patterns of care have changed over time.

Selected Publications:

Cicchetti A. Macinati M.S, Marchetti M., Bellomo S., Pisaturo D, Guido, D., Louis, D.Z. Yuen, EJ., Rabinowtiz, C., Gonnella, J.S. Severity of illness and organizational variables - drivers of performance in clinical departments in a teaching hospital in Italy, Proceedings of the International PCS/E 2000 Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Louis, D.Z. New Developments in Disease Staging in Italy and the United States: Methods and applications. (1997) Proceedings of the 13th International PCS/E Working Conference, Firenze, Italy.

Louis, D.Z., Taroni, F., Polesinanti, C., Ghiselli, P.C., Rabinowitz, C., Yuen, E. (1995) Intrahospital variation in a DRG-based hospital financing system. Proceedings of the 11th International PCS/E Working Conference. Oslo, Norway.