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W B Blanton

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PubMed1980

Physician's role in hospital continues to shift.

The interplay among physicians, trustees, and administrators, and medical staff relations with house staff, nurses, and foreign medical graduates are some of the issues of 1979.

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PubMed1980

Competition: the game everyone's playing.

The need of all hospitals to make a profit and the key role of census in the creation of that profit have led to a crisis in census marked by strong competition between hospitals, administrators, and physicians. This article examines how hospitals compete for patients and physicians and the need for the direct participation of the hospital board in the competitive struggle.

Bed Occupancy↗
PubMed1980

Physician's role in hospital continues to grow.

The author examines the literature of the past year in search of the trends of 1979-- many of which will surely be carried into the '80s. The interplay among physicians, trustees, and administrators, and medical staff relations with nurses and other physicians are discussed.

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PubMed1979

How administration rates medical staff members.

Physicians may not be aware that nonphysician members of the hospital staff rank each member of the medical staff as to his contribution and impact on the hospital. The author takes a look at the value of a physician from the standpoint of management. Four factors are examined: contribution to census, quality of hospital work, cooperation with management, and medical staff citizenship.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1979

The hospital census problem: ways to fill hospital beds.

Excessive hospital capacity has created a fierce competition in the hospital industry. Any hospital within an area which becomes economically healthier through increase in the number of hospital beds filled, does so only at the expense of another.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1979

A physician looks at board-medical staff relationships.

The hospital that thrives in the short run and survives in the long run is the one that best exploits the forces that tend to unite the board and the medical staff while minimizing the elements that tend to divide them. A strong, effective medical staff is the most important determinant of constructive board-medical staff relations.

Conflict, Psychological↗
PubMed1978

Have PSROs changed physicians?

The Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO) program has affected most hospital-related physicians in some way. Although historically reluctant to judge their peers, physicians are now acknowledging society's right to quality assurance in medical care and their own responsibility in monitoring the profession. PSROs, while creating arenas for physician conflict, also allow physicians a loud political voice.

Humans↗
PubMed1978

Foreseeable trends in health care delivery.

"These trends represent the obvious call from society for health change: enlarged access to the system; reduction in the rate of rise in cost; equity in care; and increased quality in care. All of these elements except the cost objective requires not lessened but additional and redistributed resources. If this is pleasing, exert influence to reinforce the trends toward it. If not, speak now to modify the otherwise inevitable."

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