Application of Porter's generic strategies in ambulatory health care: a comparison of managerial perceptions in two Israeli sick funds.

abstract：:In-depth interviews with nurses who have been bullied depict bullies masking their bullying behavior behind the cloak of legitimate organizational processes, resulting in extensive harm to targets. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hutchinson M,Vickers MH,Jackson D,Wilkes L

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antitrust and competitive issues are intertwined with efforts to control health care costs. Whether hospital competition holds down costs is an issue of much controversy and is the topic of this article. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that hospitals compete primarily on a nonprice basis. This suggests...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Nguyen NX,Derrick FW

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：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：: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：BACKGROUND:Numbering close to 300,000 nurse managers represent the largest segment of the health care management workforce. Their effectiveness is, in part, influenced by their job satisfaction. PURPOSE:We examined factors associated with job satisfaction of novice frontline nurse managers. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH:We us...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Djukic M,Jun J,Kovner C,Brewer C,Fletcher J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research in configurations and strategic groups has a rich history of revealing performance differences for hospitals and health care systems. PURPOSES:To assess the relationship between hospital-led health system configurations and the adoption of patient safety practices. In particular, the adoption of co...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ford EW,Short JC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, this study identifies the dimensions of hospital service quality, operationalizes the dimensions, and develops an instrument to measure patient satisfaction. This instrument, the Key Quality Characteristics Assessment for Hospitals (KQCAH) sca...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Sower V,Duffy J,Kilbourne W,Kohers G,Jones P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delivering safe patient care remains an elusive goal. Resolving problems in complex organizations like hospitals requires managers to work together. Safety leadership training that encourages managers to exercise learning-oriented, team-based leadership behaviors could promote systemic problem solving and en...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Singer SJ,Hayes J,Cooper JB,Vogt JW,Sales M,Aristidou A,Gray GC,Kiang MV,Meyer GS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reframing surprise as an opportunity rather than as a threat can be facilitated when we recognize that efforts to deny, control, and prevent uncertainty operate as barriers to reframing. Removing the barriers requires trust and risk-taking among key stakeholders, especially among patients, physicians, and health care ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Montgomery K

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Survey data from a sample of physicians whose primary professional activity is administration were used to examine their previous administrative positions and career paths. Forty percent reported administrative positions in more than one type of health care organization, and time spent in administration increased with...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kindig DA,Dunham NC,Chun LM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impact of three physician-hospital contractual arrangements (PHCAs)--joint ventures, management service organizations, and not-for-profit foundations--on physician involvement in hospital governance and physician-hospital relationships. Analysis of data collected from a national sample of 1...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kocher C,Kumar K,Subramanian R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article proposes new bases for the payment of hospital capital costs. Separate distinctions between proprietary and voluntary hospitals are made based on their definition of capital and the requirements for capital maintenance. Replacement cost depreciation is suggested as the payment basis for voluntary hospital...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Cleverley WO

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This study examined whether social capital can enhance an individual's ability in reducing emotional exhaustion and job tension when medical professionals encounter a crisis such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Chang KH,Gotcher DF,Chan MY

更新日期：2006-01-01 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: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：:Research on organizational control and multihospital systems has focused on operational and performance characteristics. Little attention has been directed to the role of marketing as an operational strategy. This article examines the practice of marketing across interorganizational types and develops comparative prof...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Tucker LR,Zaremba RA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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 social network analysis of eighty-nine midlevel health care professionals showed that middle managers' strategic knowledge is positively associated with championing alternative ideas and synthesizing new information for upper management. In addition, the relationship between knowledge and middle management strategic...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Pappas JM,Flaherty KE,Wooldridge B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of modern challenges in quality, safety, patient centeredness, and cost, health care is evolving to adopt leadership practices of highly effective organizations. Traditional physician training includes little focus on developing leadership skills, which necessitates further training to achieve the po...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hopkins J,Fassiotto M,Ku MC,Mammo D,Valantine H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article proposes a vision, strategies, and structure for the organizations that will replace community hospitals. The vision must embrace health rather than health care, and cost reduction as an explicit, measured goal. Strategies must include immediate cost savings, but also longer-term revision of organizations...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Griffith JR

更新日期：1997-07-01 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 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：: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