...” of organizational politics, rather than treating them as constraints in an otherwise rational, managerial system. Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 The Politics of Management in Health Care: A British Perspective Stuart C. Haywood...

...David Chinitz; Victor G. Rodwin Abstract The field of health policy and management (HPAM) faces a gap between theory, policy, and practice. Despite decades of efforts at reforming health policy and health care systems, prominent analysts state that the health system is “stuck” and that models...

...Barnett R. Parker Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Special Bibliography From the Health and Health-Related Management Science/ Operations Research Literature Compiled by Barnett R. Parker, University of North...

...Donald W. Light Diana Chapman Walsh, Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987), 267 pp., $30.00 paper Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References Bosk , C. 1979 . Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical...

... pp. Dan Lerman, Home Care: Positioning the Hospital for the Future (Chicago: American Hospital Publishing, 1987), 321 pp. James L. Heskett, Managing in the Service Economy (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1986), 211 pp. Farhad Simyar, Strategic Management in the Health Care...

...Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau Theodore Marmor. Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy. London: Stationery Office, 2004. 72 pp. £16.50 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Lalonde, M. 1974 . A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians . Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services...

...Christy A. Rentmeester; Robert I. Garis How ought we determine whether businesses in the health care sector profit fairly? One class of companies in the health care sector, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), deserves special consideration. We describe two specific revenue-generating practices...

... corporation upon physicians' medical practice in four owned hospitals. Findings indicated that HCA hospital managers were most directly influenced by the local competitive environment and their own personal agendas in responding to PPS incentives. Corporate influence actually softened payment system...

...Virginia Gray; David Lowery; Erik K. Godwin In the 1990s, strong incentives for managed care organizations to control costs, once regarded as a fortuitous confluence of interests, came to be seen as antithetical to consumers' interests in quality of care. In response to this change in political...

... boards adopt policies associated with progressive pain management. Further, policy has been negatively influenced by historical activity: boards that previously adopted one pain policy have been less likely to subsequently adopt additional pain policies. This work illuminates mechanisms behind state pain...

..., uncritical support for patient auton- omy and the ideal of the completely managed death have required their proponents to trivialize plausible concerns about coercion, depression, and self-destructive impulses among the dying or about death-dealing anger disguised as compassion among their caretakers...

...Keith J. Mueller Joyce E. Beaulieu and David E. Berry, eds. Rural Health Services: A Management Perspective . Ann Arbor, MI: AUPHA Press, 1994. 297 pages. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Gesler , W. M. , and T. C. Ricketts. 1992 . Health in Rural North...

...Mark A. Goldberg Two Backlashes: Targeted Reforms and Supply Chain Management Mark A. Goldberg Yale School of Management The Current Backlash Managed care plans—fresh from extraordinary...

...Etienne E. Pracht The objective of this article is to understand the political motivations underlying Medicaid managed care reforms by examining the determinants of enrollment of beneficiaries in managed care plans in the fifty states. To highlight the role of the model variables, including...

...Thomas R. Oliver Policy Entrepreneurship in the Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of Managed Care and Managed Competition Thomas R. Oliver...

... . Patients’ Rights in Managed Care: Exit, Voice, and Choice. New England Journal of Medicine 337 ( 3 ): 210 -216. Blendon , Robert J. , Mollyanne Brodie, John M. Benson, Drew E. Altman, Larry Levitt, Tina Hoff, and Larry Hugick. 1998 . Understanding the Managed Care Backlash. Health Affairs 17...

...Christopher J. Conover; Peter J. Rankin; Frank A. Sloan A comparative study was conducted in two neighboring states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to determine whether Medicaid managed care (implemented in Tennessee as TennCare) affected prenatal care, care patterns at labor-delivery, and birth...

...Ae-Sook Kim; Edward Jennings This article utilizes a theoretical framework of policy innovation, diffusion, and reinvention to investigate the evolving nature of Medicaid managed care programs over time. By estimating two separate models, one for primary care case management (PCCM) and a second...