Back to Search
Start Over
Clinical decision making--what every non-clinician manager should know but was never taught.
- Source :
-
The Journal of health administration education [J Health Adm Educ] 1998 Fall; Vol. 16 (4), pp. 357-75. - Publication Year :
- 1998
-
Abstract
- The management of a health care system requires making decisions and establishing policies that can affect the process of patient care. Clinicians often complain that these decisions and policies are made by people without clinical training. Clinical knowledge is not a prerequisite for a career in health policy or management. Even graduates of accredited health administration programs are not required to understand the process of clinical decision making or the nature of medical practice. Much of the health services literature advocates a shared decision-making model for clinicians and managers. However, most of the literature focuses on how to involve physicians in management decision making; almost none discusses management involvement in clinical decisions. This paper briefly examines how non-clinician managers can support the clinical decision-making process and then specifies the knowledge and skills required for them to play this role.
- Subjects :
- Clinical Medicine education
Efficiency, Organizational
Goals
Humans
Organizational Objectives
Patient Care Planning standards
Physician-Patient Relations
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Professional Autonomy
Professional Competence
Quality Assurance, Health Care
United States
Clinical Medicine standards
Decision Making
Decision Making, Organizational
Hospital Administrators
Hospital-Physician Relations
Medical Staff, Hospital
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0735-6722
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of health administration education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10350869