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Through the well-chosen lens of comparisons, Dorn takes us on a fascinating journey through time and the intriguing development of performance control in the realm of health care and US hospitals. Firmly anchored in rich accounts, both historical and contemporary, its take-aways on organization, professionalism and control make up a highly relevant and timely contribution to both academic and practitioner debates.

Susanna Alexius, Associate Professor in Business Administration at Score, Stockholm University and the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

In Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision, Christopher Dorn provides a sweeping history of performance measures and quality assessments in U.S. health care. Dorn carefully documents how different regimes of internal and external comparison have shaped clinical decision making, generated contention within the field, and produced unforeseen consequences. Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision is a valuable addition to scholarship on organizational metrics, quantification, valuation, and the sociology of professions.

Michael Sauder, Professor of Sociology, University of Iowa; Fellow, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universitt Erfurt, Germany

Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals service provision and medical professionals work.

With a focus on U.S. health care, this book outlines how medical quality was defined and compared in the hospital sector from the late 19th century to the present. Developing a novel theoretical framework to investigate performance comparisons, several different forms of internal and external performance assessments are contrasted throughout this period. The transformative effects of these comparisons on hospitals relationships to patients, insurers, regulators, and staff are analyzed and their ramifications for current hospital care are explored. Drawing on this analysis, the book examines the controversial nature of these measures and the struggles among hospital managers, patients, physicians, and policy makers to determine hospital quality.

Affording a deeper understanding of how performance comparisons influence organizational service provision, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of fields, including organization studies, accountability and evaluation, health care, and policy research as well as practitioners in hospital care and management.

Christopher Dorn is a research associate in sociology, Trier University, Germany. He obtained his doctorate, supported by the German Excellence Initiative, from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. He specializes in the sociology of (e)valuation, organizations, performance measures, and professions.

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Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision

U.S. Hospitals and the Quest for Performance Control

Christopher Dorn

First published 2021

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2021 Christopher Dorn

The right of Christopher Dorn to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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This book is a revised version of the authors PhD thesis at Bielefeld University, Germany, 2019.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dorn, Christopher, author.

Title: Performance comparison and organizational service provision : U.S. hospitals and the quest for performance control / Christopher Dorn.

Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routeldge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020041779 (print) | LCCN 2020041780 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367565169 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003098126 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: HospitalsAdministrationEvaluationUnited States. | Medical careUnited States.

Classification: LCC RA971 .D67 2021 (print) | LCC RA971 (ebook) | DDC 362.1068dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020041779

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020041780

ISBN: 978-0-367-56516-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-09812-6 (ebk)

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Contents

part i
Introducing performance comparisons

part ii
Theorizing hospital performance comparisons

part iii
Examining the case of hospital performance comparisons in the United States

1. Half Title
2. Series

1. i
2. ii
3. iii
4. iv

Guide

Even though the process of writing of a book mostly consists of solitary time in front of a desk, it is above all a collaborative effort. Therefore, I want to express my gratitude to all the people and organizations that have provided support during the writing process in one way or another.

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