The physician-manager alliance : building the healthy health care organization

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The physician-manager alliance : building the healthy health care organization

Stephen M. Davidson, Marion McCollom, Janelle Heineke

Jossey-Bass, c1996

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index

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Description

This work details an approach for a health-care organization which is designed to create a new dynamic for clinician-manager relations that will restore confidence in the health care system. The book shows how the alliance of managers and physicians can implement effective policies and procedures that will provide health care that is responsive to patient's needs, and is timely, considerate and technologically appropriate. The authors reveal how medicine is actually practiced in today's health care organizations, and offer guidance for needed improvements.

Table of Contents

The High Stakes of Change: The Need for Physician-Manager Alliances. Our Growing Dependence on Organizations. The Health Care Customer in the New Marketplace. Physicians and Managers: The Search for Common Ground. Moving Toward the Health Care Organization: Identifying the Critical Changes. Measuring Effiiciency, Effectiveness and Satisfaction. Understanding the Physician-Manager Relationship: Five Perspectives. An Open Systems View: A Realistic Framework for the Health Care Organization. The Problem-Solving Approach: Creating Collaboration.

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