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U.S. businesses have overwhelmingly approached employee health from a cost management, rather than investment …, I draw upon the resource-based view and past research on health promotion and health care cost management to outline the … productivity.Based on these findings, I argue that minimalistic cost management approaches to employee health are unwise from both …
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The purpose of this dissertation is to study the development process of hospital information systems (HIS) in China's hospitals. The dissertation addressed five research questions: (1) What are the contextual conditions that impact China's hospital information systems (HIS) development? (2) How...
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) Career Commitment; (4) Retention in the nursing profession; and (5) Retention in the employing organization. Age, education …
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study were in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 key management staff. The information from the interviews was … development and implementation of an alliance and proposed a revised strategic management model that includes a detailed strategic …
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Guide for Nurse Executives" is based on an adaptation of a business administration theory of Henri Fayol (1949) for nursing … administrators with nursing backgrounds as the optimal administrators in agencies where skilled nursing service is the primary …
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This dissertation is comprised of three separate essays that share a similar theme: physician private practices.The first essay revisits prior research that has proposed a general framework for physician cost function estimation. The econometric specification is a multi-product cost function,...
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Although screening for breast cancer is broadly utilized in the United States, the optimal approach in terms of examination modality, frequency, and starting age is unclear. Furthermore, there is no consensus on the benefit from earlier, more frequent, or additional modes of screening for women...
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This research analyzes determinants of HMO compensation (salary, fee-for-service, and capitation) for primary care physicians. First, a theoretical model is constructed to analyze physician preferences for fee-for-service versus capitation based on payment risk characteristics. The analysis...
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The study examines the implementation of managed competition in Florida as a legislated, decentralized, public-private partnership having the characteristics of a network. The policy subsystem model of Milward and Wamsley was used to examine the network, the network structure, the reasons and...
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Purpose of study. This study is to determine whether DRG reimbursement has changed the structure of hospital costs. Due to incentives for greater output efficiency, inpatient per unit costs should fall, ceteris paribus. A countereffect for capital-intensive services is that hospitals may realize...
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