Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision: U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness) - Hardcover

Dorn, Christopher

 
9780367565169: Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision: U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367565161 ISBN 13: 9780367565169
Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals’ service provision and medical professionals’ work.

With a focus on U.S. health care, this study outlines how medical quality was defined and compared in the hospital sector from the late 19th century to the present. Developing a novel theoretical framework to investigate performance comparisons, several different forms of internal and external performance assessments are contrasted throughout this period. The transformative effects of these comparisons on hospitals’ relationships to patients, insurers, regulators, and staff are analyzed and their ramifications for current hospital care are explored. Drawing on this analysis, the book examines the controversial nature of these measures and the struggles among hospital managers, patients, physicians, and policy makers to determine hospital quality.

Affording a deeper understanding of how performance comparisons influence organizational service provision, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of fields including organization studies, accountability and evaluation, health care, and policy research as well as practitioners in hospital care and management.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Dorn is a Research Associate in Sociology, Trier University, Germany. He obtained his doctorate, supported by the German Excellence Initiative, from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. He specializes in the sociology of (e)valuation, organizations, performance measures, and professions.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0367565161
ISBN 13 
9780367565169
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
250
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