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E S Henley

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PubMed2001

Strategic decision-making among top executives in acute-care hospitals.

Recent changes within the dynamic healthcare industry have necessitated further assessment of the strategic thought processes associated with financial success. Therefore, this study explored hospital executive's use of a comprehensive strategy-making process and its impact on performance in acute care hospitals. Taken as a whole, the strategy-making process is found to be positively associated with financial performance. Supplementary analysis, investigating the unique effects of environmental planning, scanning and analysis, revealed that, when considered separately, scanning and analysis contribute significantly to performance, whereas strategic planning, as classically defined, does not. Implications for decision-making in hospital settings are discussed.

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An analysis of referrals and referral rates.

This article summarizes a study showing the major factors that affect referral rates of Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service primary-care professionals. The article also summarizes a referral rate prediction model. The multiple linear regression statistical analysis, employed in the study, produced three factors that largely determined the referral rates of physicians practicing in tertiary-care and secondary-care facilities: hospitalized morbidities per 1,000 population, the total medical-care professionals associated with a facility, and the number of specialists associated with a facility. The referral rates of physicians practicing in primary-care facilities were associated with morbidities per 1,000 population, median age of primary-care professionals, and distance to the closest medical referral center. The findings of this article take on new meaning and importance with the advent of diagnostic related group (DRG) reimbursement legislation. If administrators understand more about physician referrals, they will better understand one significant aspect of the cost of DRGs in their facilities.

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