Journal article
A Changing Health Care Decision-Making Environment
Human relations (New York), v 39(7), pp 647-659
Jul 1986
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Abstract
The increasing pressure to contain costs is bringing a new member to the "traditional" health delivery team, the professionally(and nonmedically-) trained administrator. In this paper, we examine the root differences in attitudes of physicians and this emerging administrative group exhibited in response to simulated life-threatening scenarios. When cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is indicated, physicians in our sample focus on the future "worth" (or quality) of the patient's life; administrators, however, are more likely to focus on the existing "worthiness" of the patient. These differences lead us to conclude that equitable health care delivery programs in the United States, balancing quality, availabity, and cost efficiency, will require new broader-based management systems both at the macrosystem as well as at the single institution levels.
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- Title
- A Changing Health Care Decision-Making Environment
- Creators
- Joan L. Weiner - Drexel UniversityE. G. Boyer - Department of Management and Information Systems, Saint Joseph's UniversityNeil J. Farber - Division of Clinical Medicine, Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Human relations (New York), v 39(7), pp 647-659
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1986D274800004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84973832912
- Other Identifier
- 991019173952904721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Management
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary