Document Type : Correspondence
Authors
1 Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics & Management, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 The Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
3 European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels, Belgium
4 Department of Health Systems Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Keywords
We were pleased to read the eight commentaries on our paper entitled “Dual agency in hospitals: how do managers and physicians reconcile clinical and economic considerations?,”1 and are happy to respond to them in this short correspondence. It was interesting to see how our article created a broad echo, and was relevant to various disciplines, ranging from medical ethics2 to sociology of professions,3 management of organizations,4 to name a few. ...(Read more...)