In responding to pressures to contain cost and improve the quality of care, medical staff are becoming increasingly involved in policymaking and managerial decisions.

Collective Bargaining↗

PubMed1978

Creative responses needed in controlled environment.

Faced with an increasingly regulatory environment, hospitals must find innovative ways by which, first, to survive and, then, to respond constructively to externally applied constraints. Decertification of beds and a move to ambulatory care programs are only two of many possible responses. The key to success will be the measure of cooperation between health care providers, insurers, and government.

Ambulatory Care↗

PubMed1976

The trustee as advocate for society: a new perspective on quality of patient care.

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Delivery of Health Care↗