Advances in health care management : this volume / John D. Blair, Myron D. Fottler, Grant T. Savage -- Complexity science and health care management / Reuben R. McDaniel, Dean J. Driebe -- Managed care and drug treatment practices : a model of organizational response to external influence /...

Advances in health care management : overview / Grant T. Savage, John D. Blair, Myron D. Fottler -- Nurse staffing and nursing performance : a review and synthesis of the relevent literature / Lynn Y. Unruh, Myron D. Fottler -- Population health management in theory and practice / Ann Scheck...

The role of paradox in integrated strategy and structure configurations : exploring integrated delivery in health care / G. Tyge Payne, John D. Blair, Myron D. Fottler -- A turbulent field : theory, research, and practice on organizational change in health care / James B. Goes, Leonard Friedman,...

Measuring up : are nurse staffing measures adequate for health services research? / Lynn Unruh, C. Allison Russo, H. Joanna Jiang, Carol Stocks -- Matrix mentorship in academic medicine : sustainability of competitive advantage / Jay A. Fishman -- The impact of hospital ownership conversions :...

This is the second biennial volume reviewing the state-of-the-art on a wide variety of micro and macro health care management topics in the popular "Advances in Health Care Management" series. It proudly showcases reviews of both empirical and conceptual research in specific areas of health care...

System wide health reform has become the norm across the globe, forcing health care delivery organizations to critically examine the ways in which they are structured and operate on a day to day basis. Resource scarcity has become common while at the same time, quality and clinical outcomes...

Dramatic changes to the structure of health systems since the 1980s has seen the development of large, integrated health organizations designed to provide scale and scope advantages, improve the quality of care and health outcomes, and provide greater bargaining power relative to payers and...

This fifth volume of Advances in Health Care Management examines international health care management. It consists of 12 papers, one of which serves as an introduction, with the other papers arranged into three sections. The first section on patients and providers focuses on such issues as how...