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, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501706028
1501706020
1501706578
9781501706578