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This chapter analyses the Correlation between cost leadership and differentiation strategy and performance in a hospital setting. In cost leadership, the focus is on utilization rate, creation of clinical pathways and the importance of corralling the variability in supplies to reduce cost. As for differentiation strategy and quality of care, the three main reasons for correlation are the strong association between patient experience and clinical outcome measures, the strong interplay between patient experience and organizational structure and performance, and last but not least is collocation, a descriptive term for the allocation or clustering of physicians and medical staff caring for a specific population of patients.
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Hamdan, A. (2017). Correlation Between Type of Strategy and Performance. In: Strategic Thinking in a Hospital Setting. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53597-5_9
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