The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and HospitalsHarvard University Press, 1991 - 456 էջ In this penetrating analysis, Bradford Gray tackles the thorny issues surrounding the question of to whom and for what our physicians and hospitals are accountable. This book provides a careful evaluation of the mechanisms of accountability that have developed along with a growing profit orientation of health care, and it alerts us to keep a sharp eye focused on who is looking out for the interests of the patient. |
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Proprietary | 16 |
The Evolution of InvestorOwned Hospital | 31 |
The Performance of ForProfit and Nonprofit Health | 90 |
External Accountability and Problems of Fraud | 111 |
Provider Efforts to Shape the Reimbursement | 152 |
ForProfit Health Care and the Accountability | 166 |
Organizational Dependence and the Fiduciary Ethic | 204 |
Steps | 242 |
Utilization Management by Third Parties | 274 |
The Profit Motive and Accountability in the Future | 321 |
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