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May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Today's radiologists face professional problems, including commoditization of radiology services and an unsustainable growth rate of advanced imaging use, which are linked by a decline in radiologist-clinician communication. The result is the isolation of radiologists and a change in their professional role.
April 7, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents eight recommendations to improve quality and lower costs of the U.S. health care system. The recommendations were created by the FRESH-thinking project--a series of workshops attended by physicians, health insurance executives, business leaders, economists, health policy experts, and hospital administrators.
October 29, 2009 | Story
Click on the links to read about a forum examining why it takes an average of 17 years for our nation's health care system to widely adopt some promising discoveries, and the latest work of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing.
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
One of the most striking changes in health care policy-making over the past 40 years has been the growing attentiveness to the voices of patients. This article traces the history of the consumer/survivor movement and analyzes its impact on the polic ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In the current article, Pescosolido and Martin build on the history of medicine presented in Starr's 1982 book, The Social Transformation of Medicine. Specifically, they investigated how scientific medicine achieved professional dominance and sovere ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The author reviewed Paul Starr's 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine (TSTAM). Starr's focus in TSTAM was the corporatization of medical care which he posited would involve: change from nonprofit and public hospitals to private a ...
March 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Despite several well-crafted Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, there remainswithin health care a persistent refusal to confront providers' responsibility for severe quality problems. There is a silence of deed-failing to take corrective actions - ...
October 1, 2001 | Journal Article
"Why Arrow? Why Now?"
November 1, 2001 | Journal Article
Using an established taxonomy of health networks and systems, these authors examined whether there was a nationwide trend away from the vertical and horizontal arrangements that serve as the backbone to organized delivery systems.
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
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