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Determinants of rural hospital utilization of multiskilled health practitioners.
John C. Hyde,Myron D. Fottler +1 more
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A database search of the HEALTHPLAN 1981--8/91SilverPlatterTM (National Library of Medicine, 1991) provided the results of a comprehensive literature search of articles pertaining to professional staffing shortages by discipline.Abstract:
Current health care literature is replete with recent accounts of severe health care professional personnel shortages adversely impacting patient care and creating staffing dilemmas (Aiken, 1989; Arnwine, 1990; Boyd et al, 1990; Caine, 1990; Carter, 1987; Donovan, 1990; Eubanks, 1990; Greipp, 1989; Hall and Stevens, 1991; Kinney, 1991; Kirschner, 1988; Kirschner, 1989; Lomurno et aI, 1990; Mead and Nkongho, 1990; Morris, 1989; Mullner et al, 1989; Neuhs, 1991;O'Neill and Vocke, 1990; Perry, 1991; Rich and Aldridge, 1988; Rosenbach, 1990; Shepard, 1990; Stubson and White, 1988; Wagner, 1991; Warner and Grohman, 1990; and Werkema, 1990). This epidemic of insufficient professional health care manpower is widespread and touches literally all the health care professions. A listing of the significant health care articles on professional staffing shortages published during the last 10-years-plus period was obtained from a database search of the HEALTHPLAN 1981--8/91SilverPlatterTM (National Library of Medicine, 1991). This listing provides the results of a comprehensive literature search of articles pertaining to professional staffing shortages by discipline. Resultsread more
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Contemporary models of change in the health professions.
Eugene S. Schneller,J. B. Ott +1 more
TL;DR: The application of modern management principles to health care runs the risk of overriding the "action orientation" that is a defining component of professional work.
Hospitals struggle to respond to the technologist shortage.
TL;DR: A hospital in rural California uses a head-hunter to recruit high-technology technicians in an attempt to ease the growing shortage of radiologists, sonographers, and others who operate expensive, sophisticated hospital equipment.
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Organizational innovation: the influence of individual, organizational, and contextual factors on hospital adoption of technological and administrative innovations.
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Conceptual issues in the study of innovation
George W. Downs,Lawrence B. Mohr +1 more
Communication of innovations: A cross-cultural approach, 2nd ed.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the diffusion of new ideas innovations which are being made around the world and the processes of adoption and adaptation are examined in reference to cross-cultural similarities and differences.
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Program change and organizational properties. A comparative analysis.
Jerald Hage,Michael Aiken +1 more
TL;DR: Empirical indicators of the organizational properties of complexity, centralization, formalization, and morale are developed and related to the rate of adoption of new programs and services in sixteen social welfare organizations and a high degree of job satisfactions is found to be most highly associated with a high rate of program change.