{"title":"Conducting physician surveys.","authors":"M F Hall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Physician/hospital cooperation is important to the success of health delivery systems. Surveying is one way to evaluate physician attitudes and needs. Personal interviews, telephone interviews and mailed questionnaires are the three principal ways survey data are generated. With physicians, a mailback survey yields the best response, because physicians can control when they respond. Survey methodologists strive to control for any systematic bias that may skew the data. For all surveys, it must be decided if those who responded are representative of all those who could have responded. High-quality surveys sent to doctors once a year with plenty of notification and encouragement to respond will yield the best results. Have a plan of action to deal with the results. Avoid writing questions that have yes/no responses and allow space for physicians to comment on each section.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 10","pages":"28-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21009578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternate care sites. The challenges for GPOs, suppliers and materiel management.","authors":"J W Strong","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the United States healthcare delivery system evolves, the alternate care site market is creating challenges and opportunities for materiel managers, groups and alliances. To be effective, an alliance or GPO must provide value. Many network integrators are setting up wellness and \"telephone triage\" programs to keep people from entering the continuum of care at all. Alternate care sites will face the same cost constraints presently being felt in many hospitals. GPOs and alliances will therefore have to provide value to these sites in ease of use, meaningful benefits, easy administration, and working with the network and distributors. Materiel managers can play an important role by developing product standardization among sites, rationalizing distribution to sites by using one or perhaps two distributors to serve all of the alternate site providers in the network, using group contracts to lower acquisition prices and providing greater services.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 9","pages":"20-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21008305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mattress evaluation for long-term care facilities.","authors":"C Stank, H McFarland, B Micucci","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients spend more than a third of their hospital time in bed and considerably more than that if they are residents in a long-term care facility. When our facility, Fair Acres Geriatric Center, a 911-bed long-term care facility in Lima, PA, noticed increasing losses of our standard mattresses, we decided to evaluate new products. We listed very important criteria (bacteria resistance, flame retardation, self-deodorization and comfort and resiliency) and important criteria (stain resistance, cost and warranty) and then brought in three standard mattresses for our staff to evaluate. We were able to procure a mattress that met our criteria and halved our costs in the process.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 9","pages":"28, 30, 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21007985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare reform and the common good.","authors":"J Summers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 9","pages":"48, 50, 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21007987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}