Christopher Dorn

Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision

U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals' service provision and medical professionals' work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780367567484
• ISBN-10: 0367567482
• Artikelnr.: 69895319

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dorn is a Research Associate in Sociology, Trier University, Germany. He obtained his doctorate, supported by the German Excellence Initiative, from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. He specializes in the sociology of (e)valuation, organizations, performance measures, and professions.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introducing Performance Comparisons
1. U.S. Hospitals: Peak Performance and Disappointment
Part II: Theorizing Hospital Performance Comparisons
2. Hospitals in the Context of Health Care, Profession, and Organization
3. Comparison, Performance, and Organizations
Part III: Examining the Case of Hospital Performance Comparisons in the
United States
4. Reinventing the Hospital and Medicine: Setting the Stage for
Comparisons, 1870-1945
5. The Jactitations of Hospital Control: Proliferation of Performance
Comparisons, 1945-2016
6. Conclusion: Hospital Performance Control between Hope and Disappointment