title: Clinic management teams: integrators of professional service and environmental change.
abstract: Clinic management teams comprising an administrative director, a head nurse, and a physician manager are interdisciplinary management units in an ambulatory care setting of a large teaching hospital. This article reviews the development of these integrative teams and the factors critical to their success.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Taft
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Pelikan
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006126:Group Processes; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D009820:Ohio; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008486:Physician Executives