An assessment of health care supervisory training needs.

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：: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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Benchmarking has become very popular among managers to improve quality in the private and public sector, but little is known about its applicability in international hospital settings. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicability of an international benchmarking initiative in eye hosp...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： de Korne DF,Sol KJ,van Wijngaarden JD,van Vliet EJ,Custers T,Cubbon M,Spileers W,Ygge J,Ang CL,Klazinga NS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exploratory study of hospital planners was completed to determine if there was agreement between theory and practice concerning mission statement components and development. Results showed that mission statements have received little attention as part of the overall strategic planning process. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Gibson CK,Newton DJ,Cochran DS

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：BACKGROUND:Implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) is currently underway, but there is limited empirical evidence on the merits of the ACO model. PURPOSE:The aim was to study the associations between delivery system characteristics and ACO competencies, including centralization strategies to manage org...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Chukmaitov A,Harless DW,Bazzoli GJ,Carretta HJ,Siangphoe U

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All types of acute care hospitals across the U.S. are becoming increasingly involved in offering CAM services. Hospitals appear to be responding to consumer demand, CAM specific market forces, and their organizational missions but not to regulatory mandates. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Clement JP,Chen HF,Burke D,Clement DG,Zazzali JL

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：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 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：BACKGROUND:Hospital incentive payments are increasingly becoming tied to quality. However, the U.S. health care system continues to face rising health care costs and scarce workforce resources, making improving quality a challenge. Patient satisfaction and process quality are two areas of quality tied to reimbursement....

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Tajeu GS,Kazley AS,Menachemi N

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Specialty care institutions will face many concerns during the remainder of this decade. Increased intermediary and community education, establishing reliable benchmarks, understanding and dealing with a competitive marketplace, and establishing improved professional productivity are some of the major challenges. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Eckenhoff EA,Kerstetter AL,White AR

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Value-based leadership--linking "managership" and leadership approaches--is needed to meet today's ever-proliferating challenges to the fundamental philosophy and mission of health care organizations. To work, however, it requires important changes from everyone in the organization. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Brozovich JP,Shortell SM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The economics of cost containment, growing competition, and the introduction of new technology are forcing major changes on the health insurance industry. This transformation will impact the hospital industry in significant ways, hastening its evolution from a cottage industry to a modern corporate structure. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Higgins CW,Meyers ED

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:This article describes the author's path from a Doctor of Science from Johns Hopkins to a career mostly involved with practice. This practice has focused on innovation and new business development requiring significant research and analytical application, as well as leadership of key people. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Dahl AW

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：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：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: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：: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