The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has launched the “IP Program Evaluation Tool,” designed to help professionals assess the resources needed to improve patient ...

While the Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool has been a controversial pillar of the President's Management Agenda, elements of it -- such as transparency and solid performance ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

The Bush administration's annual evaluations of federal programs are good for improving management, but problematic for budgeting because they fail to take into account congressional intent and can be ...

Benchmarking where your program is as opposed to others of like size and capabilities is a game we all play, at least in our heads. Another more formal way to figure out where you are programmatically ...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), in conjunction with the Health Care Compliance Association, recently released a resource document to help healthcare ...

The Office for Research has also developed the Program Evaluation Core (“PEC”) to address the program evaluation needs of training grants. The PEC provides a range of pre- and post-award services ...

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a widely used method for planning and coordinating large-scale projects. As Harold Kerzner explained in his book Project Management, “PERT is ...