Trends and forecasts of hospital discharges for selected diseases in regional hospital markets.

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：:This article reports the findings of an analysis of the implementation of continuous quality improvement (CQI) or total quality management (TQM) programs in 10 hospitals. This analysis is the result of a 2-year study designed to identify and assess the ingredients that lead to the successful implementation of CQI prog...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Carman JM,Shortell SM,Foster RW,Hughes EF,Boerstler H,O'Brien JL,O'Conner EJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health information technology (HIT) purports to increase quality and efficiency in health care organizations. However, health care organizations are situated in constantly changing environments. They need dynamic capabilities to implement HIT effectively. PURPOSES:This article builds on the dynamic capabili...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Leung RC

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：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: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: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：: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: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：:To prepare for managed competition, many hospitals now focus on service quality as a means to improve their competitive position. To aid in decisions about where best to direct limited resources, managers need physician feedback about how the hospital's services compare with its competitors' services (competitive adva...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Beach LR

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：: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：: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: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Studies indicate that better patient compliance and higher patient satisfaction result when agreement exists between the physician and the patient regarding the medical problem and its treatment. PURPOSES:This study will extend previous work by investigating (1) under what conditions patients prefer to be a...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Ryan J,Sysko J

更新日期：2007-01-01 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 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：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:The United States has invested nearly a billion dollars in creating community health information organizations (HIOs) to foster health information exchange. Community HIOs provide exchange services to health care organizations within a distinct geographic area. While geography is a key organizing principle f...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Vest JR

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Managers may desire an approach to combining multiple productivity measurements into one score. This article demonstrates two approaches to aggregating multiple measurements, data envelope analysis (DEA) and the Multicriteria Performance/Productivity Measurement Technique (MCP/PMT). These methods are applied to actual...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Young ST

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although health care managers pay a great deal of attention to marketing, there appears to be limited substantive action. As more organizations successfully implement the marketing concept, other organizations will follow suit and marketing will become more prevalent throughout the health care industry. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Clarke RN,Shyavitz L

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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