Das Gesundheitswesen
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Das Gesundheitswesen · Mar 2000
Comparative Study[Physician's anxiety and physician's elegance. Problems in dealing with cost reduction, education of general practitioners and optimal size of practice networks in a cross-national comparison].
The key reason for physicians networking in managed care is to get a better coping with uncertainty on action (treatment) decisions. The second reason for networking in managed care are financial benefits grounds. But this reason is very ambivalent. ⋯ The destiny of the joint doctor's offices in Germany suggest due to a very serious power to scatter this networks. The comparative analysis of conflicts, strains, resources and strategies of associations and networks could yield from a developed methodical repository in sociology and social psychology what exists since 40 years (see also Meyer--in this journal). But therefore must be included also the action problems, which are only mentioned in passing of the according profession horizon.