The U.S. Census Bureau plans to conduct the Management and Organizational Practices Survey-Hospitals (MOPS-HP) as a supplement to the 2019 Service Annual Survey (SAS). The MOPS-HP will utilize approximately 4,500 hospital locations for enterprises classified under General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (NAICS 6221) and sampled in the SAS, and will collect data on management practices from Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) to assist in identifying determinants of clinical and financial performance. No official statistics on management practices in hospitals currently exist, but past research shows these practices are related to health care providers' clinical and financial outcomes. The MOPS-HP will provide unique national-level estimates on management practices in hospitals that will potentially help the U.S. health care system.
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(ii) Use of information;
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