Health Care Practice and Management

Survey of Physician "Thought-Leaders" on the Future of
the United States Health Care System: This study focused on the views of prominent physician members of the Institute of Medicine. The study examined the problems and challenges of health care delivery in the 1990s, including cost, access, the role of insurance companies and government and the changing nature of the doctor-patient relationship.

Corporate Customer Satisfaction with Health Care
Services: These surveys have been conducted for several health care insurers to measure service quality and to assess how corporations plan for changes in health and life benefits. Reactions were tested concerning new products such as flexible benefit plans, accelerated benefits and new forms of managed care. Interviewing was conducted by telephone.

Assessment of Current Physician Practices and Attitudes
About Artificial Insemination: This Abt SRBI study was based on self-administered interviews with 1,501 physicians in two groups -- reproductive care specialists and members of a medical fertility society. The study was conducted for the United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment.