Four large hospital departments were included: Two internal medicine and two surgery, all of which were comparable in major organizational characteristics.
Bringing the nation's biggest triathlon to the nation's biggest city turned out to be an organizational feat comparable to the Ironman itself.
The second relates to the applicability of many of the above recommendations to other EMR countries, who face comparable regulatory, legal and organizational challenges.
After using a bootstrapped data envelopment analysis technique to estimate efficiency scores for each hospital in our sample [ 5, 6], we employed propensity score matching to ensure that the two groups of hospitals in our analysis (i.e. privatized and non-privatized) were comparable in terms of organizational characteristics, environmental characteristics, and patient heterogeneity [ 7– 9].
The two datasets include comparable individual-level as well as organizational-level variables.
Therefore, the two measures for organizational rank in the two datasets are comparable in substantive meaning.
The German and Swiss VET organizational structures and learning venues appear to be comparable.20 One main difference is that the Swiss commercial VET prepares apprentices for all the commercial branches within one single apprenticeship program.
So, the answers of both interviews were comparable and therefore are a reliable measurement of the effectiveness of our organizational changes.
Given the variability in athletes' career length across different sports and different cultures, we sought an appropriate context for comparison where basic organizational characteristics of the different sports and the environmental context would be comparable.
Others are artistic and programmatic quality, relationship of the request to the organizational mission, managerial and fiscal competence, nature and extent of interpretive efforts, availability of comparable services in the area, and the extent of earned revenue or other support.
