Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?

Amanda Goodall ()

No 5830, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in three specialties: Cancer, Digestive Disorders, and Heart and Heart Surgery. The personal histories of the 300 chief executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a physician (p

Keywords: hospitals; expert leaders; organizational performance; physicians; professional managers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 M12 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011-07
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Published - published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (4), 535 - 539

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