The Challenge to change reforming health care on the front line in the United States and the United Kingdom

There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. In this book, Rebecca Kolins Givan analyses the successes and fa...

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Main Author: Givan, Rebecca Kolins
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2016, 2016©2016
Series:Culture and politics of health care work
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Summary:There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. In this book, Rebecca Kolins Givan analyses the successes and failures of efforts to improve hospitals and explains what factors make it likely that the implementation of reforms will be rewarded by positive transformation in a particular institution's day-to-day operation
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781501706578
1501706578
0801450055
9780801450051