The role of collective labor contracts and individual characteristics on job satisfaction in Tuscan nursing homes.

abstract：:This article describes the extent to which hospitals use different integrative processes to assimilate physicians and assesses the extent to which their use is associated with managed care penetration and hospital characteristics. Results from a national survey of 1,495 community hospitals indicate that these integrat...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Morrisey MA,Alexander JA,Johnson V

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The term "medical neighborhood" refers to relationships that patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) seek to establish with other providers to facilitate coordinated patient care. Yet, how PCMHs can accomplish this coordination is not well understood. PURPOSE:Drawing upon organizational theory (; ; ), we exp...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Alidina S,Rosenthal M,Schneider E,Singer S

更新日期：2016-04-01 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:Redundancy is mostly conceived as "waste" resulting from inefficient operations that ought to be eliminated. However, there are scholars who challenge this view and argue that redundancy is an essential element in facilitating reliable and safe operations in health care delivery processes. The ambiguity on r...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Tay HL,Singh PJ

更新日期：2019-06-26 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：:We evaluated physicians' acceptance of managed care using data from Connecticut physicians. We grouped physicians' attitudinal responses on three dimensions and applied an institutional distance framework to evaluate factors that influence physicians' acceptance of managed care practices. Our results demonstrate the p...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Floyd SW,Kramer JA,Born PH

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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：:Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) identifies price and technical inefficiencies among decision-making units. With controls for differences in case-mix and standardized outcomes, DEA's "best practice" frontier can be interpreted as a "cost-effectiveness" frontier. This study illustrates the key concepts, identifies the d...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Finkler MD,Wirtschafter DD

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：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 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：:The formation of health insurance purchasing alliances in Minnesota has caused a restructuring of the provider system. One of the results has been the formation of competing delivery systems that organize hospitals, physicians, and insurance plans into vertically and horizontally integrated organizations termed integr...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kralewski JE,de Vries A,Dowd B,Potthoff S

更新日期：1995-10-01 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:In 2014, Maryland established a global budget policy for all hospitals in the state. Under this policy, hospitals are incentivized to not only provide clinical care services to individual patients but also address the health needs of their broader patient population through prevention efforts and investment ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Cronin CE,Singh S,Franz B

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Minnesota's 1994 health care reform legislation authorized the establishment of community integrated service networks (CISNs) and health care provider cooperatives, which were envisioned as new health care delivery models that could be successfully implemented in rural areas of the state. Four CISNs are licensed, and ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Casey MM

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：: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: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：BACKGROUND:How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. Studies identifying how organizations can implement improvement despite barriers are needed, particularly in primary care. PURPOSES:This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kerrissey M,Satterstrom P,Leydon N,Schiff G,Singer S

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:This article reports how continuous quality improvement (CQI) techniques were applied to physician care of patients with hypertension. A physician task force at an ambulatory care center used CQI methods to address the needs of two important "customer" groups: (1) third party payors and (2) patients with hypertension....

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Waggoner DM

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:The current literature on the enabling conditions of multidisciplinary teams focuses on the singular dimensions of the organizations (i.e., human resources, clinical pathways, objects) without shedding light on to the way in which these organizational factors interact and mutually influence one another. PUR...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Marsilio M,Torbica A,Villa S

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:This article identifies the strategic types in the hospital industry based on the hospital's use of Porter's generic strategies in their pure and hybrid forms. The article also examines differences in performance of hospitals across strategic types. Results indicate that hospitals that follow a focussed cost leadershi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Kumar K,Subramanian R,Yauger C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managerial and supervisory skills are seldom included as part of health care workers' education. This article explores activities performed by supervisors and managers, past training, perceived needs for additional training, and factors influencing attendance at training programs. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Paradis LF,Lambert JL,Spohn BB,Pfeifle WG

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of for-profit managed care organizations raises serious ethical questions for managers in these settings, such as whether contemporary business ethics are most appropriate for health care organizations or how the principles of biomedical ethics can be integrated into profit-seeking firms. A model is propose...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Friedman LH,Savage GT

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential conflict exists between the recent growth of unionization in the health care industry and management efforts to increase productivity. One method of managing this conflict is to link employee rewards to employee productivity through productivity bargaining. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fottler MD,Maloney WF

更新日期：1979-01-01 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