Health care management review
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Health Care Manage Rev · Jan 2000
Strategies for effective management participation in community health partnerships.
This article develops guidelines for effective health services management participation in community health partnerships. Drawing on our study of Community Care Network (CCN) Demonstration, the strategic alliance literature, and other research, we describe six challenges that health services managers are likely to face as partnership participants and discuss the strategies that they might use to deal with them.
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The history of total hip replacement in the U. S. demonstrates that health care providers can reduce costs while improving quality. Nationwide, the cost of total hip replacements has declined dramatically while quality has improved. This article describes 14 clinical and management innovations ranging from patient education to competitive bidding.
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Health Care Manage Rev · Jan 1997
Best practices for managing surgical services: the role of coordination.
Growing evidence exists that patient outcomes are related to how effectively health care organizations coordinate work responsibilities among their staffs. However, information is lacking on actual practices that can be used to achieve effective coordination. This article reports on a National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study, in which the authors studied the coordination practices of 20 surgical services that, based on risk-adjusted mortality and morbidity rates, occupied different ends of the patient outcomes continuum.