title: Strategic planning: is it still useful?
abstract: This issue of DRG Monitor reports on a recent study of strategic planning processes in public and voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals. The results of the study are used to evaluate the role of strategic planning in implementing recently introduced management concepts in health services institutions.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States