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. 2021 Nov-Dec;66(6):433-448.
doi: 10.1097/JHM-D-20-00157.

Reported Clinical and Financial Performance of Hospitals With Physician CEOs Compared to Those With Nonphysician CEOs

Leon E Moores  1 , Amy Landry  2 , S Robert Hernandez  3 , Jeff M Szychowski  4 , Nancy Borkowski  3
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Reported Clinical and Financial Performance of Hospitals With Physician CEOs Compared to Those With Nonphysician CEOs

Leon E Moores et al. J Healthc Manag. 2021 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Little work has been done comparing the performance of hospitals with physician CEOs versus nonphysician CEOs, despite the ease of identifying this characteristic and extant leadership theories suggesting a relationship between technical expertise and success in leading highly technical organizations. We performed a detailed analysis of several widely accepted measures of clinical and financial performance across a randomly selected group of U.S. acute care hospitals with more than 40 beds and found no statistically significant differences between the two groups. The 30-day acute myocardial infarction mortality rate showed a positive statistically significant difference in the bivariate analysis (p < .001), but the effect was nullified in the multivariable regression analysis.

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