Orthopaedist-Hospital Alignment in a Community Setting

摘要

Background Physician-hospital alignments are becoming more common in today's healthcare environment. In the community setting, these relationships can impact quality of care as well as physician and hospital bottom lines. Alignment strategies take many different forms and can be advantageous to both the community orthopaedist and the community hospital, but certain key factors must be present to prevent a failed effort. Both the physician and hospital must be clear about their goals and expectations to overcome barriers and ensure success. Questions/purposes We outline alignment strategies, goals, expectations, and implementation of a community-based, hospital alignment program and key factors that must be present to prevent a failed effort. Search Strategy We queried PubMed and the AAOS web site for the terms "physician hospital alignment", "hospital physician alignment", and "clinical integration". We initially identified 65 articles and identified 19 that described the formation, evaluation, and examples of community hospital alliances.