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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Health Sciences, Health Care Management"”.
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Exploring the Business Case for Magnet Status: Comparison of Medicare Spending per Beneficiary and Average Cost per Discharge Among North Carolina Hospitals based on Geographic Location, Bed Size, Time of Trend Measures, and Healthcare System Association
Research Problem and Objectives Rising healthcare costs are a significant concern for individuals, healthcare providers, and our nation. The vitality of North Carolina (NC) hospitals is impacted by the organizations’ human and fiscal resources. Magnet designation is a human resource strategy …
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Dialogue Experiences in a Cross-Functional Health Care Team
The study results might offer awareness to health care professionals who work with and make decisions related to quality improvement initiatives and who participate in and/or facilitate team meetings, and to human resource development professionals with an interest in human process interventions …
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Choice and Use of Services Under an Employer -Provided Dental Benefit Program: A Pilot Study
… utilization? Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Utilization is used as the theoretical framework of the study and the effects of non-monetary costs of dental care on utilization are emphasized in the analysis. The sample consists of 448 employees of a large midwestern state …
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An Analysis of Health Sector Trends: Incorporating Theories of Unbalanced Growth
International studies of health care expenditures find income elasticities of aggregate demand for health care in the range of 1.0 to 1.5. Applying these same models to a U.S. time series using ordinary least squares to estimate a cointegrating relationship yields estimates in this range. …
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Simulations of Merger -Induced Price Changes in Hospital Markets
… models the effects of increasing managed care penetration on the incentive for hospitals to merge. The typical hospital market is modeled as a logit oligopoly. An implication of the model is that the incentive for hospitals to merge rises as the managed care penetration in their market …
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The Impact of Hospital Consolidation: An Examination of Consolidating Hospitals and Their Rivals
Results from the multivariate analysis showed that for-profit hospitals had significantly higher costs and prices before consolidation and significantly lower costs and prices after consolidation. However, these post-consolidation price savings were mitigated by market concentration. Therefore, in …
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… I explore this issue in the context of healthcare organizations---chosen because of the industry's inherent degree of competing interests and the associated conflicts that have been raised by the managed care movement. In particular, I focus on the identity management strategies and …
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Nurses' Experiences of Empowerment and Autonomy Following Hospital Restructuring
… structural changes in their work world. Managed care, cost containment, and downsizing have resulted in a shifting and variable hierarchy of leadership in nursing. The widely reported shortage of nurses, resulting in assumed lapses in quality of care, has been compounded by the loss of a …
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A Descriptive Study of Hospital-Based Occupational Health Services for Businesses
… information about hospital-based occupational health services (OHS) for businesses. The 226 hospitals that made up the population for the study had indicated on a 1984 American Hospital Association (AHA) survey that they offered an OHS to businesses. In November, 1985, a questionnaire was sent …
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Knowledge Competencies for Directors of Hospital Education
The primary purpose of this study was to identify the essential knowledge competencies needed by a director of hospital education. A modified Delphi technique was employed to identify these essential knowledge competencies. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine the relative importance …
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Professional Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction of Nurses Employed in Hospitals
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511678.pdf: 10406393 bytes, checksum: 80106cbd3797f56156bc438bd0934fbe (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Organizational Determinants of Quality Surgical Care
… affected the delivery of high quality surgical care to individual patients who received biliary surgery in a stratified random sample of 17 U.S. hospitals were investigated in this study. A causal model was developed to examine the organizational attributes which affected the quality of care …
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Organizational and physician characteristics predicting practice style: A study of outpatient care in a large group practice
… physicians practiced lead to different styles of care. In both sets of analyses, I used extensive controls for clinical factors and a variety of non-clinical factors including physician specialty and organizational factors.
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Application of the Bayesian belief network model to evaluate variances in a clinical caremap: Radical prostatectomy case study
A clinical caremap is a cost-effective tool for clinical process improvement that has been accepted in hospitals and various healthcare organizations in many countries. However, compared to the literature describing the initial development of the clinical caremaps, the evaluation of the impact of …
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Intermarket Patronage Revisited: The Relationship Between Relative Perceived Quality and Relative Perceived Sacrifice
Past research on intermarket patronage has focused on either the characteristics of the market (e.g. distance, population) or of the consumer (e.g. demographics, psychographics). As a result, a comprehensive explanation of outshopping behavior has yet to be provided. This dissertation research …
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Efficient Bundling and Unbundling of Hospital Services: An Examination of Scale and Scope Economies in the Hospital Industry
The hospital industry is currently engaged in a process of establishing free standing facilities for the treatment of certain patients, such as emergency or outpatient surgery clinics. This "unbundling" of services from the traditional hospital setting has motivated researchers to study the …
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The Interstate Distribution of Federal Health Grants: An Analysis of Causal Factors
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606917.pdf: 11026044 bytes, checksum: aed57a6ff2e2eecff1a27bc749e71436 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Principal-agent, risk, and market structure effects on health maintenance organization choice of payment method for primary care physicians
… fee-for-service, and capitation) for primary care physicians. First, a theoretical model is constructed to analyze physician preferences for fee-for-service versus capitation based on payment risk characteristics. The analysis shows that capitation can be less risky than fee-for-service. A …
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Emergency Department use: Why do patients choose the Emergency Department for medical care and how much does it really cost?
… to understand Canadians' expectations of health care services and the costs of delivering care in the Emergency Department (ED) in order to continue to provide health care in a sustainable manner. Objectives: To examine the reasons patients present to the ED, and to conduct a cost analysis …
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The Structure of Collective Bargaining: An Assessment of Its Development and Impact in Metropolitan Hospital Bargaining
The dissertation examines the development of the structure of collective bargaining in metropolitan hospital bargaining in six U.S. cities, and the impact of unionization and bargaining on the employer organizations. In the first part of the study, the long term development of bargaining structures …
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