Enhancing Physician Performance
Editors: Scott B. Ransom, DO, MBA, William W. Pinsky, MD, and John E. Tropman, PhD

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Enhancing Physician Performance

An essential element in the medical manager’s job is ensuring that clinicians provide excellent care at optimum cost. This new book is a leader’s guide to that job. In 30 definitive chapters, it addresses the characteristics of the excellent physician, techniques for discovering and enhancing that excellence, and incentives that can be put in place to elicit high-powered performance from physicians.

649 Pages © 2000

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction: The Five C Path for Enhancing Physician Performance

Part One

Characteristics

Chapter 2
Enhancing Physician Performance through the Reappointment Process

Chapter 3
Hiring High-Quality Physicians

Chapter 4
Understanding and Managing Physicians with Disruptive Behavior

Chapter 5
A Case for Medical Student and Resident Mentorship Leading to Enhanced Physician Performance

Part Two

Competencies

Chapter 6
Enhancing Physician Performance through Practice Profiling

Chapter 7
Risk Adjustment for Quality Measurement

Chapter 8
Benchmarking in Health Care

Chapter 9
The Employer Perspective on Quality and Outcomes Measurement

Chapter 10
New Directions in Physician-Patient Relationships: Shared Decision Making in Medical Care

Chapter 11
The Fundamentals of Managerial Communication

Chapter 12
Health Care Leadership and the Improvement of Care

Part Three

Conditions of the Workplace

Chapter 13
What Do Physicians Want from Their Workplaces?

Chapter 14
Space Design for the Bottom Line

Chapter 15
The Use of Clinical Information Systems in Enhancing Physician Performance

Chapter 16
The Development of a Physician "New Pay" Compensation Program Using Activity-Based Costing

Chapter 17
Physician Compensation

Chapter 18
Metrics: A Faculty, Academic Department, and Medical School Report Card

Chapter 19
Guidelines and Pathways: A Work in Progress

Chapter 20
Disease Management Programs

Chapter 21
Contracting Strategies to Align Physicians and Health System Goals

Part Four

Contexts of Practice

Chapter 22
Economics of the Physician Marketplace

Chapter 23
The Millennial Practice: New Patients, New Medicine, and New Money

Chapter 24
Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Physician Performance Enhancement Programs

Part Five
Change in Physician Practice

Chapter 25
Effecting Change in Health Care Organizations

Chapter 26
Complexity Science for the Physician Executive

Chapter 27
Docs and Meetings: How to Get as Little Done as You Do Now in Half the Time

Chapter 28
Focused Presentations

Chapter 29
Physicians and Organizations: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven?

Chapter 30
Useful Information and Resources for Enhancing Physician Performance