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：: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：:The literature related to selection interviewing dates, at least, to 1915. The focus of that literature and the conclusions represented by the various authors assumed that the employment selection interview had limited validity or predictive value until the late 1980s. Papers appearing since contradict those conclusio...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Foster C,Godkin L

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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：:An important factor in pricing decisions is the concept of cost analysis. The objective of this article is to describe the relevant costs for pricing medical services in the managed care environment. It discusses how a proper understanding of costs enables one to make correct pricing decisions. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Heshmat S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 relation between operating margin and quality of care is investigated by using survey and financial data for 82 small and medium-sized hospitals. A positive relation between the variables is found, and implications of that relationship are discussed. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Harkey J,Vraciu R

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Contrary to common understanding, not-for-profit organizations must earn a profit in order to maintain fiscal solvency. This article presents a methodology to determine the appropriate profitability target with illustrations presented for a health maintenance organization. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fallon RP

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:Research on organizational control and multihospital systems has focused on operational and performance characteristics. Little attention has been directed to the role of marketing as an operational strategy. This article examines the practice of marketing across interorganizational types and develops comparative prof...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Tucker LR,Zaremba RA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement away from cost-based reimbursement by Medicare and other third party payers has prompted an increasing number of hospitals to implement more advanced costing techniques in their operations. Findings from a recent survey of hospital executives regarding cost accounting methods shed light on the extent of t...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Orloff TM,Littell CL,Clune C,Klingman D,Preston B

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Professional bureaucracies are unique organizations whose special characteristics have implications for strategy formulation and implementation and for developing physicians as managers. This article offers 12 key points to help executives manage such organizations. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fogel DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Fitness and wellness programs can be a strategic extension of a hospital's services, assist in attracting totally new patients to a facility, and help improve a hospital's image. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Boscarino JA

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:Agency theory explains the results of conflicts of incentive between principals and their agents. Health care organizations offer many examples of agency problems, among which are conflicts between patients and physicians and between administrators and investors. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McLean RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Congress has suggested that a prospective payment system for capital should permit the continuation of cost-based reimbursement for certain projects. A study was conducted to examine the components of the capital planning process used by eight hospitals and the effect of this process on completion of capital projects....

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Anderson GF,Erickson JE

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：: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：:Scarce economic resources make cost-benefit assessment of employee training programs an important issue. It is helpful to review the role evaluation plays in training and apply cost-benefit assessment to management development programming. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Blomberg R,Levy E,Anderson A

更新日期：1988-01-01 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