Creating the climate for effective UR.
This article, the second of two, describes the role that management and planners need to play in fostering their hospitals' development of effective utilization review programs. Among the major issues that must be addressed are whether the organization's culture is ready for utilization management and whether incentives are in place to make the system work.
D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010559:Personnel Management; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000458:organization & administration*