Agency costs and complex contracts in health care organizations.

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 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：:Evidence suggests that prolonging the period of new technology diffusion has the potential of considerable cost savings, although some very real, noneconomic patient costs may be incurred. Yet hospital administrators will continue to face increasing pressure to buy newer and more expensive technologies, even before th...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lawthers-Higgins A,Taft C,Hodgman J

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent that organizational learning and resilience for the change process, that is, adaptive reserve (AR), is a component of building practice capacity for continuous quality improvement (QI) is unknown. PURPOSE:The aim of the study was to examine the association of AR and development of QI capacity. M...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Schuttner L,Coleman K,Ralston J,Parchman M

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For almost a decade, public and private organizations have pressured hospitals to improve their patient safety records. Since 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has no longer been reimbursing hospitals for secondary diagnoses not reported during the point of admission. This ruling has motivat...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fareed N,Mick SS

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of primary care treatment of patients with chronic illness is an important goal in reforming the U.S. health care system. Reducing occupational conflicts and creating interdependent primary care teams is crucial for the effective functioning of new models being deve...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Wholey DR,White KM,Adair R,Christianson JB,Lee S,Elumba D

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：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：:In today's competitive health care environment, service excellence is rapidly becoming a major differentiating advantage between health care providers. Too often, senior executives talk about their commitment to a mission statement that extols the virtues of providing world class service to their patients only to unde...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ford RC,Sivo SA,Fottler MD,Dickson D,Bradley K,Johnson L

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：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：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：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：: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：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: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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:As safety net providers, public hospitals operate in more challenging environments than private hospitals. Such environments put public hospitals at greater risk of financial distress, which may result in privatization and deterioration of the safety net. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to investigate...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ramamonjiarivelo Z,Weech-Maldonado R,Hearld L,Menachemi N,Epané JP,O'Connor S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-centered innovation is spreading at the federal and state levels. A conceptual framework can help frame real-world examples and extract systematic learning from an array of innovative applications currently underway. The statutory, economic, and political environment in Washington State offers a spec...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hernandez SE,Conrad DA,Marcus-Smith MS,Reed P,Watts C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic, continuous approach to the problem of rising medical care costs and the need for improved resource management clearly require some level of input from physicians. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Larson JG

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The presence of hospital-based palliative care programs has risen over time in the United States. Nevertheless, organizational and environmental factors that contribute to the presence of hospital-based palliative care programs are unclear. PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the role of organizati...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Chisholm L,Weech-Maldonado R,Landry AY,Epané JP

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increased use of health care teams merits further investigation in terms of their impact on patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction and patient experience generally have come front-and-center given trends within the health care industry around "patient-centered care" and "consumer engagement." PURPOS...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hoff T,Prout K,Carabetta S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses epidemiological methodology: comparing rates, confounding, the use of confidence intervals, Bayes' theorem, and occurrence screening. An appreciation of the limits of epidemiological methods will provide the manager with realistic expectations of the quality assurance process. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Everett WD

更新日期：1993-01-01 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