This study compares two measures of equity, concentration indices and wealth quintiles, and considers the benefit of using both measures together to inform programmatic decision making, benchmarking these calculations against a national reference population.
As the last large bank to announce its first-quarter profit, Bank of America is also a turning point in the financial industry's earnings season, making it a decision-making benchmark for investors.
Mortality prediction is important in clinical decision-making, benchmarking, policy making, priority setting at a population health level, and sometimes also for individual patients.
Finally, some decision-makers emphasized the importance of (5) decision making tools, or benchmarking, to improve decision making.
Also, they identified a number of opportunities for public involvement in the OWTS, including: identifying priorities, setting benchmarks, decision making within panels, and the selection of targeted services areas.
To support strategic decision making, universities require research benchmarking data that is sufficiently fine-grained to show variation among specific research areas and identify focused areas of excellence; is objective and verifiable; and provides meaningful comparisons across the diversity of national higher education environments.
The expected life-cycle cost can be regarded as a benchmark variable in decision making problems involving insurance policy making for existing structures in seismic risk prone areas.
The models that set the closest targets have made an important contribution to DEA as tool for the best-practice benchmarking of decision making units (DMUs).
Thus, the model is used here as a comparative benchmark to evaluate physician risk assessment and decision making, not as a replacement for physician decision making.
While properly calibrated class membership probabilities are favourable for decision making, they are not needed for benchmarking.
20, 21 In addition, the data can be used for benchmarking, education, policy, and decision making in participating hospitals; 9– 19, 19 and for improving the quality of care.
