title: Board operating practices subject to AHA survey.
abstract: Data on board operating practices are presented from the 1979 AHA Survey of Hospital Governing Boards, the AHA's first comprehensive collection of data on hospital governing board structures, procedures, and composition.
mesh_terms: D003249:Constitution and Bylaws; D004989:Ethics; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006075:Governing Board / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States