Dual Agency: A Fresh Perspective to Identify Dilemma Mitigation Strategies – A Response to the Recent Commentaries

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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

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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...)

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  • Receive Date: 12 October 2022
  • Revise Date: 13 October 2022
  • Accept Date: 22 October 2022
  • First Publish Date: 24 October 2022

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