Main description:

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 become the basis upon which these organizations are measured and compared with one another. This volume of "Advances in Health Care Management" includes contributions from key academic thought leaders from around the world who critically examine how health reform impacts the macro, meso and micro level strategy and policy decisions of healthcare organizations.

Contents:

List of Contributors.
List of Reviewers.
Editorial Advisory Board.
Preface.
Current Medical Staff Governance and Physician Sensemaking: A Formula for Resistance to High Reliability.
Physician Practice Responses to Financial Incentive Programs: Exploring the Concept of Implementation Mechanisms.
Crew Resource Management and Teamwork Training in Health Care: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for how to Leverage such Interventions to Enhance Patient Safety.
The Effect of Professional Identity on Comprehensiveness in Strategic Decision Making: Physician Executives in the Canadian Health Care Context.
Information Sharing Among Health Care Employers: Using Technology to Create an Advantageous Culture of Sharing.
Framing and Measuring International Patient Management.
Efficiency as a Domain of Health Care Systems: A Phenomenographic Approach.
The Changing Configuration of Hospital Systems: Centralization, Federalization, or Fragmentation?.
Concluding Remarks.
Annual Review of Health Care Management: Strategy and Policy Perspectives on Reforming Health Systems.
Advances in health care management.
Advances in health care management.
Copyright page.