Patrick O’mahen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick O’mahen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | O’mahen |
| SIGNATURE | O’MAHEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Alternative Method of Public Reporting of Comparative Hospital Quality and Performance Data for Transparency Initiatives
BACKGROUND: Hospital performance comparisons for transparency initiatives may be inadequate if peer comparison groups are poorly defined. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate a new approach identifying hospital peers for comparison. DESIGN/SETTING: We used Mahalanobis distance as a new method of developing peer-specific groupings for hospitals to incorporate both external and internal complexity. We compared the overlap in group…
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
An Alternative Method of Public Reporting of Comparative Hospital Quality and Performance Data for Transparency Initiatives
BACKGROUND: Hospital performance comparisons for transparency initiatives may be inadequate if peer comparison groups are poorly defined. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate a new approach identifying hospital peers for comparison. DESIGN/SETTING: We used Mahalanobis distance as a new method of developing peer-specific groupings for hospitals to incorporate both external and internal complexity. We compared the overlap in group…
Economics (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Broadcasting (networking (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Consumption (sociology (1 work) · Econometrics (1 work) · Economic policy (1 work) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 work) · Eurobarometer (1 work)