What is the performance in public hospitals? A longitudinal analysis of performance plans through topic modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both the concept of performance and the role of hospitals in health systems evolved significantly in the last decades. Today, the performance in health could be defined as the ability to create 'population value,' and the hospitals' role is to support this aim by providing acute care and by integrating and coordinating their activity with other settings of care. This research aims to assess how and with what degree the management of public hospitals have embraced in practice the updated concept of performance and their new role.

Result

The paper analyses 181 performance plans of 48 Italian autonomous public hospitals over a nine-year period through the topic modeling algorithm called Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). This is a method that allows for analysing lar

SUBMITTER: Noto G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8033690 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature