Sloan, Frank A.; Whetten-Goldstein, Kathryn; Wilson, Alicia - In: Social Science & Medicine 45 (1997) 4, pp. 523-533
The key hypothesis of the study was that hospital pharmacies under the pressure of managed care would be more likely to adopt process innovations to assure less costly and more cost-effective provision of care. We conducted a survey of 103 hospitals and analyzed secondary data on cost and...