Hospital operations execs focus on human resource needs. Interview by Thomas G. Goodwin.

As part of its coverage on the human resource issues that will face hospital managers in the next few years, FAHS Review interviewed several of the investor-owned industry's most outspoken and respected, managers. Although the comments of these five executives range from a call for a complete overhaul of the administrative functions of the hospital to the early recruitment of young people into the health care industry, all agreed on one key point: the successful hospital manager of the 1990s will have to be savvy, tough, resourceful, flexible and innovative.

Group treatment of erectile by dysfunction for men without partners: a controlled evaluation.

This study utilized a control group design to evaluate the effectiveness of group treatment of erectile dysfunction in men without partners. Twenty-one men with secondary erectile dysfunction were randomly assigned to one of two men's groups with different cotherapy teams or to a waiting-list control condition. Results indicated that while the two men's groups did not differ on any clinical-outcome measures, each men's group improved significantly more than the waiting-list clients on a variety of measures concerning sexual attitudes and behaviors related to erectile dysfunction.

Dating skills training in the group treatment of erectile dysfunction for men without partners.

This study was a controlled evaluation of men's group treatment of erectile dysfunction that emphasized communication and dating skills training for men without partners. Following a 6-week pretreatment waiting period, 11 men were seen for 10 sessions in two men's groups led by different cotherapy teams. Several female guest therapists attended three sessions to help the men role-play a sequence of difficult social interactions.