Health care delivery and professional effectiveness: centralization, staff admission, surgical performance and decision making.
Professional power and professional effectiveness in hospitals is a little investigated but very critical phenomenon. The problem with any investigation on power is the many variables which are involved and the complex way in which they manifest themselves. This paper tests the hypothesis of potential redundancy among these variables. The null hypothesis was rejected in favour of the alternative hypothesis, concluding that the original nine variables contained redundancies and could be replaced with four non-redundant factors. The implications for future research in this area are stated.
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Department of Accounting, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124.
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D002497:Centralized Hospital Services / Q000639:trends*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000639:trends*