Governing hospitals: trustees and the new accountabilities.
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Community Participation↗
Biomedical subjects
R M Cunningham
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Social Security must change: means test hard but necessary.
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Age Factors↗
Sounding board. Changing philosophies in medical care and the rise of the investor-owned hospital.
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Ethics↗
Hospital marketing: marketing is not a cure-all.
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Advertising↗
Wellness at work: not just a passing fancy.
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Health Promotion↗
Design trick: guessing right for a future that's anybody's guess.
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Forecasting↗
Is the independent hospital an endangered species?
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Economic Competition↗
The trouble with nurses--they're human.
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American Nurses' Association↗
Planning has some new dimensions.
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Economic Competition↗
Scaring patients isn't going to cure them.
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Appointments and Schedules↗
How free is the 'free market' going to be?
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Commerce↗
Rise in malpractice claims forces look at previous scare.
What caused the malpractice crisis of the early 1970's, and why did it fade? And why are claims rising again now? The constantly increasing complexity of medical practice along with unrealistic patient expectations undoubtedly have a lot to do with the recent upswing.
Consumer Behavior↗
Consumerism: the tables are turning.
The consumer movement as we have known it in the past may have a diminished function in the coming decade as business and industry and government exert increasing power as buyers of health services on behalf of the people.
Community Health Services↗
How free is the 'free market' going to be?
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Commerce↗
Planning has some new dimensions.
The demise of the health systems agencies means that planning for institutional survival will take place in a more competitive environment, and that the components of the planning function have new dimensions. Planners must take into account not only the epidemiology of the population but also its economic characteristics, the extent to which the market for medical services will be reorganized by new corporate conglomerates and multiunit management systems, and the reluctance of physicians and patients to embrace the trend to corporate enterprise.
Health Maintenance Organizations↗
The voluntary initiative: hospitals could provide it.
Hospitals have an opportunity to become centers of health and social services for the aged. Without their voluntary initiative to provide home care and home nursing services, increasing numbers of older people will be stacked up in institutions.
Aged↗
Gel all the working parts together.
Hospitals with the most coherent organization of decision-making authority, including physicians at top levels of governance and management, are the ones most likely to cope successfully with change.
Governing Board↗
Competition and regulation: we need them both.
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Commerce↗