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Doctors as managers.

M Dixon
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In order that a hospital function efficiently, it is imperative that the management use its skills to best effect. On this subject, Dr Dixon discusses 'organizational bonding', a bonding which, among other things, will improve planning, budgetary control and quality control and speed up decision-making, by means of decentralization. '... the vertical divisions between different professional groups and hierarchies', she concludes, 'have to be replaced by horizontally integrated service units.'

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Efficiency, OrganizationalHospital AdministrationInterdepartmental RelationsInterprofessional RelationsOrganizational CulturePhysician ExecutivesPlanning TechniquesUnited KingdomJournal Article

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M Dixon. 1993. Doctors as managers.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10161024/

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