Two Bocconians the Most Downloaded from Value in Health

A paper by Federico Lega and Anna Prenestini (Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management) with Peter Spurgeon (Warwick Medical School), Is Management Essential to Improving the Performance and Sustainability of Health Care Systems and Organizations? A Systematic Review and a Roadmap for Future Studies, tops the 2013 list of the most downloaded articles from Elsevier's Value in Health's website.

"Through the analysis of 37 studies", the authors summarize, "we found that the performance of health care systems and organizations seems to be correlated with management practices, leadership, manager characteristics, and cultural attributes that are associated with managerial values and approaches. There is also evidence that health care organizations run by doctors perform better than others".