The effects of open access on member satisfaction and intentions to remain in an HMO.

abstract：:Team level tacit knowledge is related to the collective knowledge of the team members. It is the shared experience that results in the ability to successfully anticipate the reactions of teammates in typical and nontypical situations. This study evaluates how tacit knowledge and related team characteristics influence ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Friedman LH,Bernell SL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care leaders have called for the development of communication and leadership skills to improve manager-employee relationships, employee job satisfaction, quality care, and work environments. PURPOSES:The aim of the study reported here was to pilot how a 2-day coaching workshop ("Coaching for Impressi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Cummings G,Mallidou AA,Masaoud E,Kumbamu A,Schalm C,Spence Laschinger HK,Estabrooks CA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports how continuous quality improvement (CQI) techniques were applied to physician care of patients with hypertension. A physician task force at an ambulatory care center used CQI methods to address the needs of two important "customer" groups: (1) third party payors and (2) patients with hypertension....

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Waggoner DM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rapid increase in the number of hospitals becoming members of multihospital systems in recent decades has led to the formation of local and regional clusters that have the potential to function as regional systems, a model long advocated as a policy strategy for improving health system performance. PURP...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Sikka V,Luke RD,Ozcan YA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of typologies have been developed in the strategic management literature to categorize strategies that an organization can pursue at the business level. Extensive research has established Porter's generic strategies of (1) cost leadership, (2) differentiation, (3) differentiation focus, (4) cost focus, and (5...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Torgovicky R,Goldberg A,Shvarts S,Bar Dayan Y,Onn E,Levi Y,BarDayan Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decided advantage of investor-owned companies is their ability to preserve, accumulate and attract capital. This has become increasingly important as the capital requirements of hospitals for new construction, renovation or advances of technology have grown in the past decade. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Groner PN

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The postpartum hospital stay has been decreasing in the United States in recent decades. Early discharge to achieve cost savings has been criticized by many inside and outside the health care community as sometimes being detrimental to the mother and infant. This article describes the efforts of the administration, nu...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Parsons MT,Mahoney C,Weathers LS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of for-profit managed care organizations raises serious ethical questions for managers in these settings, such as whether contemporary business ethics are most appropriate for health care organizations or how the principles of biomedical ethics can be integrated into profit-seeking firms. A model is propose...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Friedman LH,Savage GT

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated physicians' acceptance of managed care using data from Connecticut physicians. We grouped physicians' attitudinal responses on three dimensions and applied an institutional distance framework to evaluate factors that influence physicians' acceptance of managed care practices. Our results demonstrate the p...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Floyd SW,Kramer JA,Born PH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the many characteristics that classify the practice of medicine as a profession, autonomy plays the most important role. There are currently assaults on the profession's ability to select, train, and license its own practitioners and on the medical knowledge base itself, as well as the standards for applying it. Th...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： O'Connor SJ,Lanning JA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article profiles the premerger marketing, management, and mission characteristics of the combined Columbia and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) entity relative to local market hospitals. The findings show that the Columbia/HCA hospitals had fewer Medicaid patients, lower proportion of outpatient revenues, hi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McCue MJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article identifies the strategic types in the hospital industry based on the hospital's use of Porter's generic strategies in their pure and hybrid forms. The article also examines differences in performance of hospitals across strategic types. Results indicate that hospitals that follow a focussed cost leadershi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kumar K,Subramanian R,Yauger C

更新日期：1997-10-01 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:Vendors of hip and knee implants court orthopedic surgeons to adopt their products. Hospitals, which have to pay for these products, now court the same surgeons to help reduce the number of vendors and contain implant costs. PURPOSES:This study measures the surgeon's perceived alignment of interests with bo...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Housman MG,Booth RE Jr,Koenig A

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:This article reports on observations of the implementation of a patient-centered care (PCC) work reorganization model in a community hospital setting. Analysis of videotape, direct observation, and interviews with key informants demonstrated the similarities between organizations and families in times of change. We pr...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Speice J,Laneri H,Kennedy R,Engerman J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was conducted to determine community health concerns, interests, and perceived health needs. The survey data were used in the selection of health promotion interventions. An index of Concern/Information Need/Participation Willingness (CIP) was developed as a model for planning, implementing, marketing, and ev...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lichter ML,Arens PL,Reinstein N,Simonds SK,Heeringa SG

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:The formation of health insurance purchasing alliances in Minnesota has caused a restructuring of the provider system. One of the results has been the formation of competing delivery systems that organize hospitals, physicians, and insurance plans into vertically and horizontally integrated organizations termed integr...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kralewski JE,de Vries A,Dowd B,Potthoff S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence of variation in safety climate suggests the need for improvement among at least some hospitals. However, comparisons only among hospitals may underestimate the improvement required. Comparison of hospitals with analogous industries may provide a broader perspective on the safety status of our nation...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Singer SJ,Rosen A,Zhao S,Ciavarelli AP,Gaba DM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study looks into the "black box" of hospital ownership conversion in a "natural experiment." We posed two competing theories about how conversion might influence management practices. Results support complexity theory and not threat-rigidity theory. As predicted from complexity theory, MDs and RNs had greater lev...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Anderson RA,Allred CA,Sloan FA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the extant literature on patient safety is rich, few studies have specifically examined safety from the patient perspective. In addition, little is known about how patients decide whether they are safe or satisfied with their care. From a foundation of attribution theory, we suggest that patients ma...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Rathert C,May DR,Williams ES

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluating health care advertising is a four-part process that enables health care managers to target particular markets and to determine the effects of advertising particular services and products. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： MacStravic RS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because health care organizations (HCOs) are complex adaptive systems (CASs), phenomena of interest often are dynamic and unfold in unpredictable ways, and unfolding events are often unique. Researchers of HCOs may recognize that the subject of their research is dynamic; however, their research designs may n...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McDaniel RR Jr,Lanham HJ,Anderson RA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scholars have noted a disconnect between the level at which structure is typically examined (the organization) and the level at which the relevant coordination takes place (service delivery). Accordingly, our understanding of the role structure plays in care coordination is limited. PURPOSE:In this article,...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Louis CJ,Clark JR,Gray B,Brannon D,Parker V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minnesota's 1994 health care reform legislation authorized the establishment of community integrated service networks (CISNs) and health care provider cooperatives, which were envisioned as new health care delivery models that could be successfully implemented in rural areas of the state. Four CISNs are licensed, and ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Casey MM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although health care managers pay a great deal of attention to marketing, there appears to be limited substantive action. As more organizations successfully implement the marketing concept, other organizations will follow suit and marketing will become more prevalent throughout the health care industry. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Clarke RN,Shyavitz L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the extent to which hospitals use different integrative processes to assimilate physicians and assesses the extent to which their use is associated with managed care penetration and hospital characteristics. Results from a national survey of 1,495 community hospitals indicate that these integrat...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Morrisey MA,Alexander JA,Johnson V

更新日期：1998-10-01 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