ENVIRONMENTAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PREDICTORS OF ADOPTION OF COST CONTAINMENT POLICIES IN HOSPITALS.
研究基于303家非营利医院数据，发现外部监管响应、合作参与、外部导向、床位规模、入住率及行政主管对董事会的影响力正向预测成本控制政策的采纳，而患者住院时长则负向预测。
This study examined predictors of the adoption of cost containment policies in a national sample of 303 not-for-profit hospitals. Analysis of the full sample indicated that adoption of such policies was positively related to response to external regulation, cooperative interorganizational involvement, external orientation, number of beds, occupancy rate, and the influence of chief administrators on governing boards; adoption was negatively related to length of patients' stays. Additional exploratory analysis of the data revealed different combinations of characteristics that were unique to subgroups of hospitals with the lowest and highest levels of policy adoption.