title: The strategic management of hospitals: toward an integrative approach.
abstract: Evidence indicates that hospital planners do not widely practice strategic management. An integrative approach to strategic management may, however, enable them to better operate in today's increasingly turbulent environment, and hospital strategists can learn from the mistakes of businesses in the corporate sector.
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States