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  • Title: Bringing the physician back in: communication predictors of physicians' satisfaction with managed care.
    Author: Lammers JC, Duggan A.
    Journal: Health Commun; 2002; 14(4):493-513; discussion 515-8. PubMed ID: 12375773.
    Abstract:
    Data from a survey of physicians in a west coast city (n = 356) are used to measure physicians' extra-occupational sources of dissatisfaction. Data revealed a significant relationship between physicians' satisfaction and their managed care experience, their communication with managed care organizations, and views of managed care practice. Results suggest that managed care currently plays a large and significant role in predicting physicians' satisfaction. The importance of communication between physicians and managed care organizations is illustrated in the strength of the relationships between communication variables and managed care decisions. Furthermore, in assessing the strength of the relationship, regression analysis reveals that communication with managed care accounts for the largest percentage of variance in physicians' satisfaction. The results of this study suggest that communication with managed care organizations affects physicians' satisfaction with every facet of the organizational environment, including leading physicians who report problematic communication with managed care organizations to say that they would be less likely to choose the same career path again.
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