Biennial Review of Health Care Management

In this second biennial volume in the series, Blair (business, Texas Tech U.) and Fottler (health care management and informatics, U. of Central Florida) assemble nine articles that review research on micro and macro health care management topics, including the determinants of health care organizational performance, such as the influence of organizational factors on financial performance, the relationship between private equity ownership and nursing home performance, patient handoffs, and changing an organization's dominant logic to a more transformational style of problem analysis and decision making. The second section looks at health care decision processes such as patient navigation, determinants of health insurance coverage rates for young adults, evidence-based decision making, and the impact of text messaging in health care. The introductory article discusses issues in writing quality reviews for health management scholars. Contributors work in health management, policy and administration, and services in the US and Canada. No index is included. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)