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Problems experienced by role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng

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Title Problems experienced by role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng
 
Creator Mahlo, S Muller, M
 
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Description Role players within the context of managed healthcare in Gauteng experience problems in the delivery of healthcare, which negatively affect their working relationships. This in turn, affects the quality of care provided to patients. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the problem experienced by different role players within the context of managed healthcare in Gauteng, as well as the suggested solutions to counteract these problems. These results will be utilised as the basis of a conceptual framework to formulate a strategy to enhance the working relationships amongst these role players. The strategy will not be discussed in this article as the focus is on the problems experienced by the role players in the delivery of healthcare, as well as suggested solutions in the counteraction thereof. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual study was followed to explore and describe the problems, as well as the suggested solutions to counteract these problems. Focus group interviews were conducted to collect data from three private hospitals, three managed care organisations and four general medical practitioners in Gauteng. The participants were purposively and conveniently selected. Content analysis as described by Tesch (1990) was followed to analyse the data. The main problems experienced were related to inadequate communication, inadequate staff competence, cost saving versus quality care, procedural complexity, perceived loss of power by doctors and patients and the system of accounts payment. The suggested solutions focused mainly on empowerment and standardisation of procedures. It is recommended that replication studies of this nature be conducted in other provinces and that ethical standards are formulated within the managed healthcare context.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2000-09-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
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Identifier 10.4102/curationis.v23i2.641
 
Source Curationis; Vol 23, No 2 (2000); 37-41 2223-6279 0379-8577
 
Language eng
 
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https://curationis.org.za/index.php/curationis/article/view/641/579
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2000 S Mahlo, M Muller https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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