Title |
Physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction: does hospital ownership in Germany make a difference?
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, August 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-9-148 |
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Authors |
Stefanie Mache, Karin Vitzthum, Albert Nienhaus, Burghard F Klapp, David A Groneberg |
Abstract |
A growing number of German hospitals have been privatized with the intention of increasing cost effectiveness and improving the quality of health care. Numerous studies investigated what possible qualitative and economic consequences these changes issues might have on patient care.However, little is known about how this privatization trend relates to physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction. It was anticipated that different working conditions would be associated with different types of hospital ownership. To that end, this study's purpose is to compare how physicians, working for both public and privatized hospitals, rate their respective psychosocial working conditions and job satisfaction. |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Sweden | 2 | 2% |
Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | 1% |
Poland | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 84 | 95% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 17% |
Student > Master | 14 | 16% |
Researcher | 10 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
Other | 14 | 16% |
Unknown | 18 | 20% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 22% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 13 | 15% |
Psychology | 10 | 11% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 9% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
Other | 16 | 18% |
Unknown | 18 | 20% |