title: Doctors as managers.
abstract: In order that a hospital function efficiently, it is imperative that the management use its skills to best effect. On this subject, Dr Dixon discusses 'organizational bonding', a bonding which, among other things, will improve planning, budgetary control and quality control and speed up decision-making, by means of decentralization. '... the vertical divisions between different professional groups and hierarchies', she concludes, 'have to be replaced by horizontally integrated service units.'
authors.affiliation: Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dixon
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015279:Organizational Culture; D008486:Physician Executives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D006113:United Kingdom