Transformational leadership and workplace injury and absenteeism: analysis of a National Nursing Assistant Survey.

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：:In the 1990s, acute care hospitals in the United States encountered an unstable operating environment created by a series of transformations in the health care delivery system and long-term-care market. Confronted with an array of economic pressures and demographic changes, hospitals were motivated to engage in long-t...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Shah A,Fennell M,Mor V

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After this year, Medicare will no longer reimburse capital-related expenses. Instead, a new approach may be implemented. Should the new capital payment scheme be prospective? Should Medicare continue to recognize return on equity? What will be the relationship between Medicare payment and health care planning? These a...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Sloan FA,Valvona J

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:Although small in number, hospitals are increasingly seeking bankruptcy protection. This article explores the potential forces that might motivate hospitals to seek bankruptcy protection and the potential consequences for hospitals that obtain it. Case reviews of 11 hospital bankruptcies that occurred in 1990 and 1991...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Bazzoli GJ,Cleverley WO

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitness and wellness programs can be a strategic extension of a hospital's services, assist in attracting totally new patients to a facility, and help improve a hospital's image. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Boscarino JA

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：: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：:Many assets and projects provide value to organizations in excess of the direct and indirect cash flows that they generate. Under pure capitation, the link between individual investment decisions and future cash flows is completely severed. Including the value of strategic options enhances the usefulness of the capita...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Magiera FT,McLean RA

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:The reform of the Medicare hospital reimbursement system proposed by HCFA may create incentives for hospitals to transfer costs to other payers, thus reducing the financial incentives to increase efficiency. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Rosko MD,Broyles RW

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:For decades, the hospital environment has been described as turbulent and hostile. At the same time, the transfer of business practices into hospitals has been advocated, accompanied by the largely untested assumption that these practices are crucial to performance and even survival. As this pattern became entrenched,...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Bigelow B,Arndt M

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Academic health center hospitals face challenges to their survival in an increasingly competitive, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment. University hospitals face a number of major stresses and are responding in various ways to ensure their financial viability. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Jones KR,Sloate SG

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major financial constraints on health care payors are increasing pressure on hospitals to become more efficient. This study described the use of common data formats and specific interventions with physicians and nursing homes to reduce inpatient lengths of stay by four hospitals in Syracuse, New York. These initiative...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lagoe RJ,Westert GP,Kendrick K,Morreale G,Mnich S

更新日期：2005-04-01 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 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：AIM:This aim of this study was to investigate the interactive effects of psychological empowerment and job satisfaction on the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and nurses' perceptions of the quality of patient care they provide. BACKGROUND:Studies of high-performing organizations in a variety ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Leggat SG,Bartram T,Casimir G,Stanton P

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：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：:Professional bureaucracies are unique organizations whose special characteristics have implications for strategy formulation and implementation and for developing physicians as managers. This article offers 12 key points to help executives manage such organizations. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fogel DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Health care organizations (HCOs) invest in knowledge transfer to promote improved patient outcomes; however, these investments prove costly when health care workers with enhanced knowledge and skills leave to seek better employment opportunities. PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the impact of in...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fleig-Palmer MM,Rathert C

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Scarce economic resources make cost-benefit assessment of employee training programs an important issue. It is helpful to review the role evaluation plays in training and apply cost-benefit assessment to management development programming. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Blomberg R,Levy E,Anderson A

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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