The discipline of hospital development: a conceptual framework incorporating marketing, managerial, consumer behavior, and adult learning theories.
The purpose of this explanatory and prescriptive article is to identify interdisciplinary theories used by hospital development to direct its practice. The article explores, explains, and applies theories and principles from behavioral, social, and managerial disciplines. Learning, motivational, organizational, marketing, and attitudinal theories are incorporated and transformed into the fundamental components of a conceptual framework that provides an overview of the practice of hospital development. How this discipline incorporates these theories to design, explain, and prescribe the focus of its own practice is demonstrated. This interdisciplinary approach results in a framework for practice that is adaptable to changing social, cultural, economic, political, and technological environments.
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Organ and Tissue Acquisition Center of Southern California, University of California-San Diego, USA.
Stampfl
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D000328:Adult; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000458:organization & administration*