Evidence-Based Health Care Management: Multivariate Modeling Approaches

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2002 - Business & Economics - 233 pages
Evidence-Based Health Care Management introduces the principles and methods for drawing sound causal inferences in research on health services management. The emphasis is on the application of structural equation modeling techniques and other analytical methods to develop causal models in health care management. Topics include causality, theoretical model building, and model verification. Multivariate modeling approaches and their applications in health care management are illustrated.
The primary goals of the book are to present advanced principles of health services management research and to familiarize students with the multivariate analytic methods and procedures now in use in scientific research on health care management. The hope is to help health care managers become better equipped to use causal modeling techniques for problem solving and decision making.
Evidence-based knowledge is derived from scientific replication and verification of facts. Used consistently and appropriately, it enables a health care manager to improve organizational performance. Causal inference in health care management is a highly feasible approach to establishing evidence-based knowledge that can help navigate an organization to high performance. This book introduces the principles and methods for drawing causal inferences in research on health services management.
 

Contents

AN INTRODUCTION TO EVIDENCEBASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH CARE
3
CAUSAL INFERENCE FOUNDATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGERIAL DECISIONMAKING
11
RESEARCH ON HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT THE SEARCH FOR STRUCTURE
35
EXPLORATORY ANALYTICAL MODELING METHODS
49
INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
73
CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS
91
STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS FOR DIRECTLY OBSERVED VARIABLES RECURSIVE AND NONRECURSIVE MODELS
121
STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS WITH LATENT VARIABLES
139
COVARIANCE STRUCTURE MODELS
157
MULTIPLE GROUP COMPARISON WITH PANEL DATA
179
MULTILEVEL COVARIANCE MODELING
203
GROWTH CURVE MODELING WITH LONGITUDINAL DATA
215
EPILOGUE
231
INDEX
233
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