title: Service line management. New opportunities for nursing executives.
abstract: The benefits of service line management are crucial to hospitals' survival in today's changing health care environment. Nursing executives can direct activities affecting every aspect of health care delivery in the role of service line manager. These activities include such important components as standards of care, utilization review, program development, physician relations, and quality practice issues.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006296:Health Services; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States