Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers prepares readers to recognize and
respond to the ethical dilemmas they will encounter on a regular basis during their career in …

Physicians must continue to rely on their own powers of discernment and prudent judgment
and not look to external" expert" guidance or expect simple solutions in facing the myriad …

In an attempt to gain some control over ever escalating health care cost, many organizations
have moved to a managed care concept of health benefits. Managed care health benefit …

The Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE) requires of its members that
they comply with the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Health Service Executives. Like most …

The healthcare industry, particularly healthcare delivery organizations, is awash in “quality”
movements. Because the techniques, initiatives, and mechanisms associated with the …

One largely unappreciated change brought on by the emergence of hospital medicine [1, 2]
has been the transformation in the ethical paradigm of the patient-physician relationship. For …

There have been numerous negative reactions to managed care from health care providers,
as well as from employers and patients. Some feel that the care that doctors provide to their …

In their examination of one possible use of outcomes research to direct the care provided to
patients enrolled in Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), Chervenak and McCullough …

The Clinton administration's revised rules regulating but not prohibiting the common practice
in managed care of linking physician compensation with cost cutting and control of services …