Decision Making for Improved Performance: What Every Healthcare Executive Should Know

Mack, Crawford, and Reed are with an independent American firm specializing in consulting services for healthcare providers. In this succinct text, they offer healthcare executives practical strategies for evaluating their organizations' current decision- making approaches, and present ideas for improving procedures. The text details a seven-step rational, logical approach to managerial decision-making by small groups that is similar to the method used in clinical medicine. It includes a real-life case study of the use of the approach by a hospital's executives and physicians making a decision about whether or not to pursue strategic alignment. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR