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Goodall, Amanda (2011) Physician-leaders and hospital performance : is there an association? Social Science & Medicine, Vol.73 (No.4). pp. 535-539. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.025 ISSN 0277-9536.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.025
Abstract
Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data were collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in three specialties: Cancer, Digestive Disorders, and Heart and Heart Surgery. The personal histories of the 300 chief executive officers of these hospitals were then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a physician or not (p < 0.001). This kind of cross-sectional evidence does not establish that physician-leaders outperform professional managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future research. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science & Medicine | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 0277-9536 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.4 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 5 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 535-539 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.025 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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