title: Outsourcing occupational health services. Critical elements.
abstract: Successful management of an outsourcing relationship produces a highly interactive, flexible relationship between two organizations. The unique skills and resources of the service provider can be leveraged by the purchasing organization to achieve its business goals. Occupational and environmental health nurses can orchestrate this process and implement this important management tool in the provision of quality occupational health services.
authors.affiliation: Progressive Health Consulting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Dianne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dyck
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020399:Practice Management / Q000191:economics*