[Information level of physicians, clinical autonomy and efficient management].
Relevant and prompt information of physicians on different aspects of health institutions performance could facilitate managers activities. The role of manager in providing physicians with information, as common base of their participation in management, is pointed out by actual trends. Contemporary studies also show that adequate information could be means of reconciling opinions to the benefit of efficient performance. The aim of this article is to analyze information level of physician and to predict model of its connection to clinical autonomy and efficient management. Questionnaire research was conducted by examining 113 physicians and 70 managers of three health care services for occupational medicine. Information level of physicians was estimated according to accessibility of relevant information for physicians in the institution. Reduction of variables by using Cronbach and factor analysis was applied after descriptive analysis of collected data. Hypothetical model with information level of physicians as dependent variable was examined by multiple linear regression analysis on three levels: physicians, managers and complete sample. Predictors were common characteristics of examines, clinical autonomy and managerial practice. Results show that both physicians and managers agree upon physicians needs for more information, especially when outcomes of patients after discharge are under consideration, as well as referral system for professional staff and all occurrences happened in the institution. However, the regression analysis separate no clinical autonomy nor managerial practice as significantly predictors of information level. Variables from the group of common characteristics are the only significantly predictors, while for the group of manager significantly model was not found.
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008875:Middle Aged