Managed care and organizational influences on hospitalist program adoption

Hospitalists help improve healthcare efficiency, but less is known about the factors that influence hospitals to utilize hospitalists. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of managed care and hospital case mix on hospitalist program adoption in general hospitals. Maximum likelihood estimation was used to estimate a nonlinear binary response model to predict hospitalist program adoption. Hospital case mix was positively and significantly associated with the adoption of a hospitalist program while health maintenance organization market share was negatively related to hospitalist program adoption. Managers may want to consider these factors when planning to adopt a hospitalist program.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:92

Enthalten in:

Hospital topics - 92(2014), 4 vom: 09. Okt., Seite 105-11

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

DePuccio, Matthew J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case mix
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitalists
Innovation
Journal Article
Managed care

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.03.2015

Date Revised 22.12.2014

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/00185868.2014.968495

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Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM244781222