Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
A national health manpower information system: Report on a planning initiative
A.Y. Ellencweig, T. Barnea MA, researcherThis paper describes the planning of a national health manpower information system. The proposed system, which constitutes the first stage of a national health manpower planning…
Management teams: Have they a role now?
John MitchellThe British National Health Service (NHS) is a vast, complex and bureaucratic organisation which enjoys a wide degree of popular support across the political spectrum. However…
Administration of out‐patient records
Audrey MasonEffective management of costly facilities is of prime importance to all concerned with the delivery of health care. Outpatient services, always a major source of demand on…
Development and adaptation of a hospital cost and budgeting model for cross‐national use
Jean L. Freeman, Robert B. Fetter, Robert C. Newbold, Jean‐Marie Rodrigues, Daniel GautierConcern over the rising cost of medical care has caused many countries to investigate and implement different methods of cost containment, particularly for hospital services. In…
Measuring the effect of training courses on the participants
F. EskinThe subject of evaluating course effect has been a major source of controversy over a number of years in every professional field and organisational context. There has been much…
Creating hospital environments that promote health
Joan RichardsonHospitals in the United Kingdom have come in for a fair degree of criticism of late. Certainly the environments they provide would not seem to merit the much‐vaunted description…
DRGs in hospital management
Mahesh S. Patel, R. Grimm, F. Paccaud, L. SchenkerOne of the traditional tasks of district and hospital managers has been to attempt to explain variations in average length of stay, average cost per day and average cost per case…