Physician involvement in management and governance: the moderating effects of staff structure and composition.
Many hospitals are actively pursuing strategies that integrate physicians into their management and governance structures. Despite expectations that these strategies improve hospital efficiency, empirical studies have failed to provide consistent evidence that physician involvement in hospital management and governance improves hospital efficiency. This article examines factors that may moderate the relationship between physician participation in hospital management and governance and hospital efficiency.
Center for Health Systems Management, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.
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Succi
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Alexander
D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006075:Governing Board / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006739:Hospital Administration; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States