Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; The World Bank; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00847
• 发表日期: 2020-07
• 页码: 506-517
• 关键词: productivity; QUALITY; performance; physicians; IMPACT

摘要

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have lower mortality rates from acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks), better management practices, and more MBA-trained managers. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying bundled medical and business education may be a channel through which universities improve management practices in hospitals and raise clinical performance.