123 research outputs found
Validating Financial Statement Comparability Assessment in Non-Profit Firms
Get PDFIn a recent manuscript, Brajcich and Friesner (2022) proposed a new methodology to assess financial comparability in not-for-profit organizations. Their approach utilizes entropy-based information theory, and thus requires few prior assumptions about the formation and implications of financial statement comparability. This manuscript assesses the practical utility of the Brajcich and Friesner (2022) methodology by comparing its results to those generated by nonhierarchical cluster analysis. The analysis was conducted using balance sheets drawn from Washington State critical access hospitals in 2019, using a similar set of hospitals and an identical set of variables outlined in Brajcich and Friesner (2022). We find that our entropy-based results closely mimic those from Brajcich and Friesner (2022), suggesting that the method produces internally consistent results. Additionally, non-hierarchical cluster analysis and the entropy-based methodology produce consistent results, but only when a sufficient number of peer groups is assumed in the non-hierarchical cluster analysis
Do Health Care Providers Quality Discriminate? Empirical Evidence from Primary Care Outpatient Clinics
Get PDFThere has been minimal attention paid to the mechanisms of hospital quality oversight that are currently in place. Accordingly this study will analyze the system of hospital quality regulation in the US. The Social Security Act as amended in 1965 gave the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) "deeming" power for Medicare quality requirements. There are numerous reasons why JCAHO's oversight strategy may be ineffective. The primary reason is the dual role of JCAHO as a regulator and advocate. In conclusion, JCAHO surveys do provide an incentive to hospitals to improve processes of care for the period leading up to an inspection and that incentive gets eliminated after the inspection occurs. JCAHO has announced a change from the scheduled survey to an unannounced strategy. The objective of this change is to provide an incentive to maintain a level of readiness. This may not occur if hospitals are motivated to minimize the overall cost of JCAHO compliance.
On the Correlation Between Knowledge and Satisfaction in Pre-Professional Pharmacy Advising
Get PDFThis manuscript assesses the relationship between perceptions of advising effectiveness and actual knowledge related to gaining admission into North Dakota State University’s Doctor of Pharmacy program. The survey developed by Shields (1995) and revised by Davis, Haugen and Friesner (2015) was used to measure satisfaction with advising. This survey was supplemented with a series of items that characterize knowledge of the NDSU Doctor of Pharmacy admissions process. Using descriptive and inferential statistics, we find that overall advising satisfaction was statistically associated with specific knowledge questions. However, no statistically significant association exists between advising satisfaction and knowledge of the admissions process
Do Changes in Chapter 7 Asset Exemptions Fundamentally Alter Bankruptcy Outcomes? New Evidence From the State of Oregon
No full textHackney, Friesner, and McPherson (2018) developed a methodology to identify the optimal distribution of discharged debts in Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings. In 2013, Oregon adopted debtor-choice status. Applying the methodology to data from Oregon immediately before, during, and after, the conversion to debtor choice status should facilitate an accurate assessment of the impact of debtor-choice status on the distribution of debt disbursements. The results suggest that the optimal proportion of assets retained by households through exemptions is between 3-4% of all disbursements, and that the legislation did not noticeably impact convergence to this optimum proportion
Are Hospital Pharmacies More Efficient if They Employ Nurses?
Get PDFThis paper assesses the efficiency of utilizing nurses in Washington State hospital pharmacies. We take the perspective of a pharmacy department manager and model an input oriented hospital pharmacy production process. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to examine both scale efficiency and technical efficiency, and differences across hospital pharmacies that use and do not use nurse staffing are analyzed using cross-tabulations and nonparametric hypothesis tests. The results indicate that the use of nurse staffing does not significantly impact either scale or technical efficiency. Thus, permitting nurses to play a greater role in hospital pharmacies does not adversely affect efficiency. This paper has important policy implications for hospital administrators and pharmacists.
The Origins of Black English
No full text58 p.The author surveys the development and history of Black English
Literature as a Commodity
No full text30 p.The author reviews the rise of "big business" publishing houses and describes her internship with Dalkey Archive Press, a small press located outside Chicago
The Evolution of the Black Heroine and Her World : A Collective Effort to Discover and Overcome the Abuses of Power by Zora Neale Hurston, Mariama Ba, and Bessie Head
No full textxii, 67 p.The author applies Marxist-Feminist theory to the work of three African-American and African authors
The Word, the Deed, and the "Doing" : Bakhtin's Dialogics and the Dialectic Dr. Seuss
No full textiv, 87 p.A socio-political analysis of Seuss' poetics guided by C.S. Lewis' precepts that "no book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty" and that the only imaginative works we ought to outgrow are those it would have been better not to have read at all. The author applies the linguistic and child development theories of Saussure, Bakhtin, Piaget, and Vygotsky
Journey into a Crisis : the Making of an AIDS Volunteer
No full textv, 39 p.The author chronicles her experiences as a volunteer at Wellness House, a non-profit organization that provides housing and support services for people with HIV in Detroit, Michigan
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