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Essays on Healthcare Operations: Impacts of Focused Operations, Competition, Quality and Cost Efficiency of Hospitals Song, Junghoon Suresh, Nallan Operations Management and Strategy operations research management health care management Ph.D. A wide range of operations management initiatives are currently being investigated and pursued in U.S. hospitals by both practitioners and academics (Kc and Terwiesch). Even as healthcare providers are being forced to drive down costs, maintaining acceptable levels of quality, while retaining cost efficiency continues to be a major challenge. The objective of this three-essay dissertation is to investigate the impacts of a focused factory approach to healthcare operations, the role of competition as a driver to adopting focused factory approach in healthcare on quality and cost efficiency of large U.S. hospitals, and provide insights on current practices and their efficacy. 2018-10-26T02:55:47Z 2018-10-26T02:55:47Z 2018 2018-08-08 12:59:30 Text Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/10477/78573 eng Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. University at Buffalo Libraries do not manage rights for copyright-protected works and cannot assist with permissions. Copyright retained by author. application/pdf State University of New York at Buffalo