The changing role of the hospital administrator.

abstract：:Stringent rules apply to the kinds of things hospitals can say about themselves and their services, over and above the ethics that apply to all advertising. Yet it seems clear from the levels of interest in advertising among hospitals and the growth in the use of this marketing technique in recent years that persuasio...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： MacStravic RS

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of price trends from 1935-1966 shows that medical care prices in the United States have not always been disproportionately high. With the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, however, many health care costs became overpriced. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Milch RA

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chain-owned nursing homes have become the predominant type of provider in the United States, but little is known about their management structures. Prior research has found that chain ownership has significant effects on health outcomes, but why that is the case is not well understood. PURPOSE:This study ex...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kamimura A,Banaszak-Holl J,Berta W,Baum JA,Weigelt C,Mitchell W

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is the first empirical test of the strategic importance of member autonomy and open access in a managed care environment. The model utilized in this study assesses the relative importance of autonomy in selecting specialists (open access), service convenience, value/pricing, and HMO resources on member sati...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Gamble JE,Icenogle ML,Bryan NB,Rickert DA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study at 55 hemodialysis facilities, turnover was not associated with organizational size, location, or ownership but varied according to administrative strategies. Technician turnover (32 percent) was lower in facilities with shorter hours and choice of work schedule even though workload was higher. Clerical tur...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Bame SI

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prepare for managed competition, many hospitals now focus on service quality as a means to improve their competitive position. To aid in decisions about where best to direct limited resources, managers need physician feedback about how the hospital's services compare with its competitors' services (competitive adva...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Beach LR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The term "medical neighborhood" refers to relationships that patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) seek to establish with other providers to facilitate coordinated patient care. Yet, how PCMHs can accomplish this coordination is not well understood. PURPOSE:Drawing upon organizational theory (; ; ), we exp...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Alidina S,Rosenthal M,Schneider E,Singer S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managers may desire an approach to combining multiple productivity measurements into one score. This article demonstrates two approaches to aggregating multiple measurements, data envelope analysis (DEA) and the Multicriteria Performance/Productivity Measurement Technique (MCP/PMT). These methods are applied to actual...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Young ST

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Although management practices are recognized as important factors in improving health care quality and efficiency, most research thus far has focused on individual practices, ignoring or underspecifying the contexts within which these practices are operating. Research from other industries, which has incre...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Garman AN,McAlearney AS,Harrison MI,Song PH,McHugh M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A health care organization often engages in the simultaneous implementation of multiple organization change initiatives. However, the degree to which these initiatives are implemented and can be enhanced based on their interdependencies is an open question. How organizations and the change initiatives they p...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Spaulding A,Gamm L,Kim J,Menser T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Double-digit health care inflation, coupled with widespread reports of poor care quality and deadly medical errors, has caused private sector employers to reevaluate their health benefits purchasing strategies, with a focus on supply chain management approaches. In other industries, this strategy has proven ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ford EW,Scanlon DP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although HMOs very often obtain discounts for hospital services, there is little evidence that they create price competition among hospitals. Location and the availability of services and specialists, rather than price, appear to be the most important factors in the selection of hospitals by HMOs. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kralewski JE,Doth DS,Rosenberg RG,Burnes DG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) identifies price and technical inefficiencies among decision-making units. With controls for differences in case-mix and standardized outcomes, DEA's "best practice" frontier can be interpreted as a "cost-effectiveness" frontier. This study illustrates the key concepts, identifies the d...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Finkler MD,Wirtschafter DD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research compares the mean severity level, length of stay, and cost of Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) and Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) inpatients. The results suggest Medicare HMOs have healthier inpatients and shorter lengths of stay, but more costly per-day utilization. These findings are cont...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Revere L,Large J,Langland-Orban B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hospital director seeking to bring his institution to the brink of solvency found himself with ten pounds of data but no "information"--at least, not the kind of information he could use as a basis for management decisions. What he needed was a system that would not only present data, but the meaning of the data...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Davis S,Freeman JR

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the ability of teaching hospitals to finance the expenses associated with the provision of medical care to the indigent has come increasingly into question. Such concerns develop because of the burden cost shifting places on other patients and the potentially adverse market position resulting for the h...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fine DJ,Baker RJ,Vanselow NA,Leu VL,Connell AM

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature related to selection interviewing dates, at least, to 1915. The focus of that literature and the conclusions represented by the various authors assumed that the employment selection interview had limited validity or predictive value until the late 1980s. Papers appearing since contradict those conclusio...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Foster C,Godkin L

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American hospitals hoping to capitalize on the lucrative market for international patients may be in for some surprises. Not only is this market limited, but also the drawbacks may outweigh the potential benefits for hospitals seeking to enter this business. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Berliner HS,O'Toole JB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the prevalence of evidence-based interventions to improve quality in health care systems, there is a paucity of documented evidence of a financial return on investment (ROI) for these interventions from the perspective of the investing entity. PURPOSES:To report on a demonstration project designed t...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Greene SB,Reiter KL,Kilpatrick KE,Leatherman S,Somers SA,Hamblin A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Redundancy is mostly conceived as "waste" resulting from inefficient operations that ought to be eliminated. However, there are scholars who challenge this view and argue that redundancy is an essential element in facilitating reliable and safe operations in health care delivery processes. The ambiguity on r...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Tay HL,Singh PJ

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Public health institutions are making a great effort to develop patient-targeted online services in an attempt to enhance their effectiveness and reduce expenses. However, if patients do not use those services regularly, public health institutions will have wasted their limited resources. Hence, patients' el...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Martínez-Caro E,Cegarra-Navarro JG,Solano-Lorente M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health information technology (HIT) purports to increase quality and efficiency in health care organizations. However, health care organizations are situated in constantly changing environments. They need dynamic capabilities to implement HIT effectively. PURPOSES:This article builds on the dynamic capabili...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Leung RC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Value-based leadership--linking "managership" and leadership approaches--is needed to meet today's ever-proliferating challenges to the fundamental philosophy and mission of health care organizations. To work, however, it requires important changes from everyone in the organization. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Brozovich JP,Shortell SM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The resource-based view of the firm suggests that organizations must obtain valuable resources from external sources to obtain lasting benefits. Professional associations today exist in every industry and offer resources to assist their affiliates' organizations and individual members. Today, there are more ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Walston SL,Khaliq AA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managerial and supervisory skills are seldom included as part of health care workers' education. This article explores activities performed by supervisors and managers, past training, perceived needs for additional training, and factors influencing attendance at training programs. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Paradis LF,Lambert JL,Spohn BB,Pfeifle WG

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States has invested nearly a billion dollars in creating community health information organizations (HIOs) to foster health information exchange. Community HIOs provide exchange services to health care organizations within a distinct geographic area. While geography is a key organizing principle f...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Vest JR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of developing a relationship between price paid and cost expended, health care management has no basis for setting financial objectives much less subsequent evaluation. Departmental P&Ls bring the cost-price relationship into perspective. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Schroeder DH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital purchasing alliances are voluntary consortia of hospitals that aggregate their contractual purchases of supplies from manufacturers. Purchasing groups thus represent pooling alliances rather than trading alliances (e.g., joint ventures). Pooling alliances have been discussed in the health care manag...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Lee JA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In spite of significant investment in quality programs and activities, there is a persistent struggle to achieve quality outcomes and performance improvements within the constraints and support of sociopolitical parsimonies. Equally, such constraints have intensified the need to better understand the best ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Guzman G,Fitzgerald JA,Fulop L,Hayes K,Poropat A,Avery M,Campbell S,Fisher R,Gapp R,Herington C,McPhail R,Vecchio N

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement away from cost-based reimbursement by Medicare and other third party payers has prompted an increasing number of hospitals to implement more advanced costing techniques in their operations. Findings from a recent survey of hospital executives regarding cost accounting methods shed light on the extent of t...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Orloff TM,Littell CL,Clune C,Klingman D,Preston B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00