Objectives. The rapidly changing organizational context within which health care is
delivered is altering provider-patient relations and processes of clinical decision-making …

Interest in organizational contributions to the delivery of care has risen significantly in recent
years. A challenge facing researchers, practitioners, and policy makers is identifying ways to …

This paper reviews various theoretical perspectives on organizational change which have
been and could be applied to medical organizations. These perspectives are discussed as …

Health care organizations are presently attempting to adapt to an increasingly turbulent
environment that poses significant challenges to both managers and management scholars …

As the author explains in this book, the problem of improving performance in health care is
due largely to the underlying assumptions on which traditional administration practices have …

Background: The Institute of Medicine's 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm argued for
fundamental redesign of the US health care system. Six years later, many health care …

The past decade has witnessed pronounced changes in the organization of United States
hospitals, many the direct result of restructuring and re-engineering initiatives intended to …

Objective. To develop an instrument to measure organizational attributes relevant for family
practices using the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, and staff. Data Sources/Study Setting …

The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a substantial wave of organizational restructuring among
hospitals and physicians, as health providers rethought their organizational roles given …

PART I HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES IN A RAPIDLY
CHANGING ENVIRONMENT The Growing Importance of Management to Institutional …