title: Case mix management education in a Canadian hospital.
abstract: The Sunnybrook Health Science Centre's matrix organization model includes a traditional departmental structure, a strategic program-based structure and a case management-based structure--the Clinical Unit structure. The Clinical Unit structure allows the centre to give responsibility for the management of case mix and volume to decentralized Clinical Unit teams, each of which manages its own budget. To train physicians and nurses in their respective roles of Medical Unit directors and Nursing Unit directors, Sunnybrook designed unique short courses on financial management and budgeting, and case-costing and case mix management. This paper discusses how these courses were organized, details their contents and explains how they fit into Sunnybrook's program of decentralized management.
authors.affiliation: Toronto-Bayview Regional Cancer Centre.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moffat
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prociw
mesh_terms: D003361:Cost Allocation; D003479:Curriculum; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000191:economics; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017145:Models, Educational; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education; D009864:Ontario; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*