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Alfred W. Rademaker
Publications - 3
Citations - 334
Alfred W. Rademaker is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quality management & Total cost. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 318 citations.
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Assessing the Impact of Total Quality Management and Organizational Culture on Multiple Outcomes of Care for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients
Stephen M. Shortell,Robert H. Jones,Alfred W. Rademaker,Robin R. Gillies,David Dranove,Edward F. X. Hughes,Peter P. Budetti,Katherine S. E. Reynolds,Cheng Fang Huang +8 more
TL;DR: There was little effect of TQM and organizational culture on multiple endpoints of care for CABG patients and there is a need to examine further the relationships among individual professional skills and motivations, group and microsystem team processes, specifically tailored interventions, and organization-wide culture, decision support processes, and incentives.
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The cost of efforts to improve quality.
David Dranove,Katherine S. E. Reynolds,Robin R. Gillies,Stephen S. Shortell,Alfred W. Rademaker,Cheng Fang Huang +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided benchmark data on the costs of efforts to improve quality in hospitals and attempted to determine if quality improvement expenditures are correlated with outcomes and/or condition-specific hospital costs.