Current Research
Management Practices and the Quality of Care in Cardiac Units
K. John McConnell, Richard Lindrooth, Douglas Wholey, Thomas Maddox, Nicholas Bloom, 2013
Published in the Journal of American Medical Association Internal Medicine ▼▲
This paper describes the variation in management practices among a large sample of 597 hospital cardiac care units, assesses the association of these practices with processes of care, readmissions, and mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and suggests specific directions for the testing and dissemination of health care management approaches.
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals
Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen, 2010 ▼▲
This paper looks at management measures from interviews of physicians and managers in public hospitals in the UK to look at their correlation to hospital performance, including both clinical and general operational/financial outcomes, and to examine the causal impact of competition on management quality.
Management practices in substance abuse treatment programs
John McConnell, Kim Hoffman, Andrew Quanbeck and Denis McCarty, 2009
Published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment ▼▲
This paper looks at management measures from interviews of physicians and managers in around 150 drug and alcohol addiction treatment centres in the US. It finds a significant association between better management practices and days to treatment admission.
Future Research
International hospital management: From July to September 2009, a team of 30 MBAs and postgraduates at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE collected a large cross-country survey of management practices in general hospitals across in Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, the UK and the US. Over 1200 managers from general hospitals have been interviewed, and their responses are currently being analysed. The draft report will be available in fall 2010.
Management practices in cardiac units in Oregon, US: A team of analysts and directors based at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is surveying cardiac units across more than 1000 US hospitals on management practices concerned with comparing management practices and their relevant role in varying clinical outcomes across these specialities.
