Quality of health care and financial performance: is there a link?

abstract：BACKGROUND:How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. Studies identifying how organizations can implement improvement despite barriers are needed, particularly in primary care. PURPOSES:This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kerrissey M,Satterstrom P,Leydon N,Schiff G,Singer S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the pace of health sector transformation accelerates, the importance of leadership continues to grow across all health professions. Advances in a variety of disciplines can inform effective leadership development. However, at present, most health sector leadership competency models do not incorporate thes...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Garman AN,Standish MP,Wainio JA

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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:Previous studies identified individual or practice factors that influence practice-based physicians' electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. Less is known about the market factors that influence physicians' EMR adoption. PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between environmental m...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Menachemi N,Mazurenko O,Kazley AS,Diana ML,Ford EW

更新日期：2012-01-01 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:Small independent practices are increasingly giving way to more complex affiliations between provider organizations and hospital systems. There are several ways in which vertically integrated health systems could improve quality and lower the costs of care. But there are also concerns that integrated systems...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Machta RM,Maurer KA,Jones DJ,Furukawa MF,Rich EC

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Many observers have alleged that "fads," "fashions," and "bandwagons" (imitation strategies) are prominent feature of the health care organizational strategy landscape. "Imitation behavior" may fulfill symbolic functions such as signaling innovativeness but results in the adoption of strategies that are effe...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kaissi AA,Begun JW

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cultural competency or the ongoing capacity of health care systems to provide for high-quality care to diverse patient populations (National Quality Forum, 2008) has been proposed as an organizational strategy to address disparities in quality of care, patient experience, and workforce representation. But fa...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Weech-Maldonado R,Dreachslin JL,Epané JP,Gail J,Gupta S,Wainio JA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the new health care futures contract to be released by the Chicago Board of Trade sometime during calendar year 1995. Health care futures--futures contracts on health care insurance--represent a new class of financial products never before available to financial practitioners. The innovation allo...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ray R

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：: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：:Hospitals are using several methods to establish a budget for advertising. The Strategic Planning Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a study of advertising practices on nearly 200 corporations and over 1,000 individual businesses. Decision rules, developed in the study, are used to show how hospitals...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McCarthy EJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a survey of 184 directors from 15 hospitals are analyzed to determine their corporate social responsiveness orientation. They indicate that board members whose occupational background is not in health care exhibit greater concern for economic performance and the legal component of corporate responsibili...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ibrahim NA,Angelidis JP,Howard DP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

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：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：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:The implementation science literature has contributed important insights regarding the influence of formal policies and practices on health care innovation implementation, whereas informal implementation policies and practices have garnered little attention. The broader literature suggests that informal impl...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： DiMartino LD,Birken SA,Hanson LC,Trogdon JG,Clary AS,Weinberger M,Reeder-Hayes K,Weiner BJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, health professionals lacked incentives to integrate internal management processes, depending instead on external quality assurance and regulatory standards. Competitive markets and increased regulatory pressures now encourage managers to reorient systems from a cost-driven reimbursement approach to the...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Milakovich ME

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transformational leadership (TL) has long been popular among management scholars and health services researchers, but no research studies have empirically tested the association of TL with workplace injuries and absenteeism among nursing assistants (NAs). PURPOSE:This cross-sectional study seeks to explore ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lee D,Coustasse A,Sikula A Sr

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate discount rate for evaluation of capital expenditures depends on leverage, taxation, cost-based reimbursement, and risk. A method is presented to account for these effects that is both practical and consistent with theory. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Wheeler JR,Smith DG

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nursing home administrators (NHAs) are in key positions to improve nursing home quality. NHAs require state-level licensure, which involves passing a national NHA licensure examination and fulfilling state-level licensure requirements that vary widely across states. With multiple pathways to NHA licensure, l...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Siegel EO,Leo MC,Young HM,Castle NG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expanding the opportunities for for-profit nursing home care is a central theme in the debate on the sustainable organization of the growing nursing home sector in Western countries. PURPOSES:We conducted a systematic review of the literature over the last 10 years in order to determine the broad impact of ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Bos A,Boselie P,Trappenburg M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agency theory explains the results of conflicts of incentive between principals and their agents. Health care organizations offer many examples of agency problems, among which are conflicts between patients and physicians and between administrators and investors. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McLean RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Can APHA's policies effectively help U.S. communities reduce excess fertility rates among their sexually active teenagers? A study of two communities reveals to what extent APHA's policies are being adopted and whether they are successful. :Two communities with differing outlooks on the management of adolescent ferti...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Allen JE,Bender D

更新日期：1980-04-01 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