2012 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 134-138
Hospitals are managed in close association with governmental health policy. For this reason, unlike commercial enterprises, hospitals may be managed without being exposed to high economic risks. However, to maintain and advance a hospital as an organization, organizational activities like the ones required of commercial enterprises are needed. In this sense, a hospital's financial data will reflect its management as is the case with commercial enterprises. Before arguing about such data, the authors assumed that there might be factors within the qualitative information of hospitals that may have crucial impacts on hospital management. Based on this assumption, the authors conducted a study to explore if such factors could be revealed through numerical analysis of the data collected by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JCQHC) and to clarify the involvement of qualitative information in hospital management. Analysis was conducted of “hospital management policy” and “hospital environments” based on the assumption that these factors might affect hospital management. The data collected by the JCQHC were used for this study. Covariance structure analysis was attempted. In overall evaluation of the analysis models, high degrees of model fitness were revealed (GFI＝0.958, AGFI＝0.941, CFI＝0.865, RMSEA＝0.044). The results of this study suggest that hospital management policy and hospital environments are factors affecting the management of hospitals.
