Organizational Factors Affecting Physician Well-Being

Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being

These are challenging times for health care executives. The health care field is experiencing unprecedented changes that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. To successfully navigate these challenges, health care executives need committed and productive physicians working in collaboration with organization leaders. Unfortunately, national studies suggest that at least 50% of...

The well-being of physician relationships.

Organizational factors affecting the adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations.

OBJECTIVE To describe the extent of adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations in the U.S. and to investigate the organizational factors that affect the adoption of diabetes care management processes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data are derived from the National Survey of Physician Organizations and the Management of Chronic Illness, conducted in 2000-2001. A t...

Physician-Related Factors Affecting Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral

BACKGROUND Despite the positive impact of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on quality of life and mortality, the majority of people who could benefit from this program fail to participate in it. The lack of referral from the physician is a common reason that patients give for not seeking CR. The objective of this study was to compare factors affecting CR referral by cardiologists. METHODS A cross-...

Organizational factors affecting Internet technology adoption

Purpose – To explore the factors that affect the implementation of Internet technologies and to what extent the size of the company, as an organizational factor, influences that process. Design/methodology/approach – According to the innovation adoption theory, it was found that Internet adoption in firms is a process with different stages where a company is in one of a number of development st...