Making hospital-physician collaboration work.
Hospital-physician collaboration can reduce costs, alleviate unproductive competition, increase revenue, and foster productive working relationships. Using structured dialogue can improve communications. A hospital medical advisory panel of physicians can champion collaboration. A three-stage framework of proactivity, collaborative conflict, and containment can help resolve physician-hospital competition.
Cohn
Kenneth H
KH
Cambridge Management Group, Cambridge, Mass, USA. kcohn@cmg625.com
Allyn
Thomas R
TR
D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D014481:United States