Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 15 Issue 4

Theorising the social within physician decision making

Rita Mano‐Negrin, Brian Mittman

Explores the underlying behavioral processes influencing the clinical behavior of physicians toward their patients. Utilizing educational and social influence explanatory models…

Health care management: models for evidence‐based practice

Jane Farmer, Rosemary Chesson

Presents models suggesting how research evidence can best be operationalised within health care commissioning. Models were derived from data gathered from surveys of Scottish…

Gatekeeping: a challenge in the management of primary care physicians

Revital Gross, Hava Tabenkin, Shuli Brammli‐Greenberg

Assesses the degree of self‐reported implementation of gatekeeping in clinical practice, and gains insight into primary care physicians’ attitudes toward gatekeeping and their…

First wave PMS pilots: a critical analysis of documentation

Victoria Allgar, Brenda Leese, Phil Heywood, Reg Walker

Contracts and interim local evaluation reports for the 14 first wave PMS pilots in Northern and Yorkshire region were analysed by documentary analysis. Both contracts and reports…

Direct integrative practice, time constraints and reactive strategy: An examination of GP therapists’ perceptions of their complementary medicine

Jon Adams

There has been a movement towards integrating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into the NHS and a growing number of general practitioners (GPs) are personally…

The Aesthetics of Organization

Nancy Harding