Hospital cultural competency as a systematic organizational intervention: Key findings from the national center for healthcare leadership diversity demonstration project.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:The Institute of Medicine's 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm argued for fundamental redesign of the U.S. health care system. Six years later, many health care organizations have embraced the report's goals, but few have succeeded in making the substantial transformations needed to achieve those aims. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lukas CV,Holmes SK,Cohen AB,Restuccia J,Cramer IE,Shwartz M,Charns MP

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although the extant literature on patient safety is rich, few studies have specifically examined safety from the patient perspective. In addition, little is known about how patients decide whether they are safe or satisfied with their care. From a foundation of attribution theory, we suggest that patients ma...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Rathert C,May DR,Williams ES

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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：:Can organizational development work in the academic setting? Because current cost constraints and federal regulations are forcing departments and services to integrate, organizational development may be the best option for management. The study reported here shows that it can work successfully in the family medicine d...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Aluise JJ,Bogdewic SP,McLaughlin CP

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：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: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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: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：:Catholic community hospitals are becoming more like nongovernment, not-for-profit community hospitals of a similar bed size located in the same states. After controlling for state, urban-versus-rural location, and bed-size range, a matched set of 303 Catholic community hospitals are compared with nongovernment, not-fo...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Prince TR

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rapid increase in the number of hospitals becoming members of multihospital systems in recent decades has led to the formation of local and regional clusters that have the potential to function as regional systems, a model long advocated as a policy strategy for improving health system performance. PURP...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Sikka V,Luke RD,Ozcan YA

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Because health care organizations (HCOs) are complex adaptive systems (CASs), phenomena of interest often are dynamic and unfold in unpredictable ways, and unfolding events are often unique. Researchers of HCOs may recognize that the subject of their research is dynamic; however, their research designs may n...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McDaniel RR Jr,Lanham HJ,Anderson RA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the years, business valuation techniques have been widely used to appraise the financial worth of medical practices. However, it has been argued that medical practices are one of the most complex and difficult types of business enterprises to value. PURPOSE:The purpose of the current study is to develo...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hoffman JJ,Ewing BT,Hoffman JG

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：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: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：: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